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Re:If There Is Such a Thing as Economic ‘Good Times,’ These ... by ghouse on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:34PM (#17982281)
Unfortunately, infrastructure maintenance doesn't get people (re)elected. Infrastructure expansion does. And infrastructure expansion increases the future burden of infrastructure maintenance.

+1 on the lack of true fiscally conservative. The choice is between tax-and-spend and cut-tax-and-spend. Of those choices, the tax-and-spend is the fiscal conservative.

Re:If There Is Such a Thing as Economic ‘Good Times,’ These ... by merpnderp on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:56PM (#17982494)
Is it if the tax cut spurs the economy faster than the debt growth, which appears to be happening right now?
Re:If There Is Such a Thing as Economic ‘Good Times,’ These ... by tabtab on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:23PM (#17983206)
That's unlikely. And that theory failed bigly in Kansas.