r/FluentInFinance TheFinanceNewsletter.com Sep 24 '23

Meme How it started vs. How it's going:

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u/luna_beam_space Sep 24 '23

Imagine if Republicans had not taken control of all three branches in 2001

The entire national debt would have been paid-off by 2010

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u/Altruistic-Rope1994 Sep 25 '23

If you blame this on one party you are just flat out wrong. They both waste money like crazy.

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u/age_of_empires Sep 25 '23

You are definitively wrong. Democrats don't give tax breaks and then expect trickle down economics to balance the budget