You’re not even going to try to cite any authority or evidence at all, are you?

Pathetic.

If we could just skip the occasional collective American brain fart that results in election of big tax and spend libs like Carter and Clinton, maybe the GOP could accomplish both tax and spending cuts. 08 is the next big chance.

That’s the US Federal Budget numbers, in a user-friendly spreadsheet, for 1962-2006.

And, what it says is that GOPers increase federal revenues by an average 47.4% per term, and Democrats 42.4%.

Of course, it isn’t corporate tax revenue that goes up (24.7%, vs. 51.6% for Dems), but individual taxes (46.7%, vs. 44.7% for Dems).

And, social security taxes (+69.2% vs. +45.0%), but not estate duties (+32.35 vs. +49.6%).

Question: who pays into the GOPer campaign war chest?

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When it comes to spending, however, the Republican’ts really shine. Discretionary spending up 43.6% (vs. 25.3% for Democrats), program spending up 74.2% (vs. 34.1%).

Total spending up an average of 56.3% for the so-called conservatives, vs. 31.1% for the real party of fiscal responsibility.

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And, let’s remember the state of affairs before the current clowns stole power [ http://tinyurl.com/3b8t8r ]:

CBO projections for the change in public debt, 2001-06 (projection made January 2000): -$1,375 billion.

CBO actual results for the change in public debt, 2001-06 (results from January 2007): +$1,419.2 billion.

Difference? Only $2.8 trillion.

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See, the Republican’ts work on a very simple formula:
–Blow out spending, particularly that which favors your campaign contributors;
–Slash revenues from campaign contributors but jack it up for the common man;
–Ramp up the deficits and sock it away as debt paid for by T-bills;
–Let the Democrats clean up the mess; and
–Blame the Democrats, regain power and do it again.

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bb,

When you try to refute this, please be sure to put in the URL for the spreadsheets that comprise your evidence.

Name calling just won’t do.

Stephen Sliviniski, economist, author of Buck Wild, Director of Budget Analysis for the Cato Institute, and DWSUWF favorite, comments on recently released CBO budget estimates in “Finally, Some Not-So-Bad News on the Budget” posted at Cato@Liberty:…

Even worse, let’s let dems raise taxes so that revenues flowing in will decrease while social spending continues to rise.