Re: Re: Think
Constant dollars, you are right. My brain fart there.
There has been an understanding between democrats and republicans that the federal government should be somewhere between 20-23% of GDP since WWII. This balance in our mixed economy has done the country very well. What has caused the deficit more than any one thing is the last three decades of republicans being tax cut zombies. I notice you didn't address the irrefutable proof that the Bush tax cuts reduced government revenues and it took five years for them to return to 2000 levels.
Here's an example of what GOP policies would do to the recovery effort.