The Zombies of American City Streets, Philadelphia Edition

@mott-the-hoople said
Tax money is blown in many different ways, I am against all people getting taxpayer money the do not deserve it.

I think you err when you suggest it is republicans that do this.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2022/03/31/nfl-stadiums-taxpayer-funded-buffalo-bills/7217852001/

Of course it's blown in different ways. Thousands of examples of this cronyism in both parties. For the same price tag Should we help one billionaire or 10,000 others?

The political parties are the same in many ways. The one glaring obvious difference is that Republicans have a dramatically worse record on spending. The deficits under GOP presidents is.way way higher than.democrars.

@wildgrass said
Of course it's blown in different ways. Thousands of examples of this cronyism in both parties. For the same price tag Should we help one billionaire or 10,000 others?

The political parties are the same in many ways. The one glaring obvious difference is that Republicans have a dramatically worse record on spending. The deficits under GOP presidents is.way way higher than.democrars.

it is a complicated issue

your error is presidents dont control spending

@mott-the-hoople said
it is a complicated issue

your error is presidents dont control spending

Spending is quantifiably worse under republican presidents. Vote accordingly.

@wildgrass said
Spending is quantifiably worse under republican presidents. Vote accordingly.

you posted some words, now show some proof

@mott-the-hoople said
you posted some words, now show some proof

Do you really want to get into it? Or is this just denialism? Maybe requires a separate thread. We've already discussed extensively with references on past threads. My statement is supported with data.

@wildgrass said
Do you really want to get into it? Or is this just denialism? Maybe requires a separate thread. We've already discussed extensively with references on past threads. My statement is supported with data.

please show that data

@mott-the-hoople said
please show that data

Sorry for the delay Mott. I've been working. Of course, didn't forget, since your incomprehensible positions on things are in my head rent free.

See the graph of Annual $ growth in federal spending year over year, by president. The numbers posted by Reagan, Bush, Bush, and Trump all exceed Clinton and Obama. (source: http://presidentialdata.org/)

(note: Data comes from historical presidential economic reports and statistical abstracts. While this graph is from a partisan hack website (what isn't these days?) the data is real. So you're free to blame the source, but there's an email address of the author at the end if you have issues.)

Which party adds to deficits more? In a pretty comprehensive analysis posted here, Republicans add much more to deficits, adding more than 1% of GDP MORE to deficits PER YEAR than Democrats. (source: https://towardsdatascience.com/which-party-adds-more-to-deficits-a6422c6b00d7)

Yes, the budget process is a back and forth between congress and the President so that person is not entirely responsible, but still... it's been a bad 40 years for Republican presidents. Clinton had decreased spending and balanced the budget, then Bush rolls in with a Republican congress and blows it to bits. The Trump administration was even worse. In a span of a few years, no wars, no recession, no COVID and the support of a Republican congress, he took Obama's deficit spending from 488 to 988 billion. Sheesh. That's saying a lot.

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/coronavirus-cbo-budget-deficit-projection