If the federal deficit radically increased under Reagan

Then how did Republicans manage to market themselves as fiscal conservatives?

Because they marketed themselves as fiscal conservatives 100 years ago, and their base has been too fucking stupid question it ever since.
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muh laffing curve
cut taxes, decrease deficit, win-win utopia for everyone

>laffing curve
You misspelled "voodoo economics"

Because they want to and have cut taxes

Because they talk about a limit government and cutting programs

They follow through with one, but are to pussy to follow through with 2

Pretty fucking simple

Is it that they're too pussy to do it, or is it that they don't really want to do it? I'd guess probably a mix of both.

That and they really, really like dicking insane amounts of money on the military.

It's a mixture of both. One of the biggest issues fiscal conservatives face is that it is *really unpopular to cut programs. The public overwhelmingly approve of reducing the size of the government, but also overwhelmingly disapprove of cutting programs when you give them a list of which they would like to cut

This has some effect, but it's not the military budget which is blowing up the total size of the government. Defense spending accounts for around 20% of total spending and hasn't really grown much as a % since old mate in the image

Funnily enough, it could be argued that some portion of military spending is just an entitlement program designed to keep various groups of people economically afloat and voting for whoever funds the defense-related industries they depend on.

>hasn't really grown much as a % since old mate in the image

Reagan massively increased the military budget though.

It's not as radical as you would believe, because most of the other departments continued to blow out

And as a % of the GDP

Ah shit, we're in Sup Forums now. Surely this will improve the quality of discussion in this thread...

Who was Tip O’Neil for $500, Alex.

They were fiscal conservatives in response the LBJ policies which pretty much created the welfare systems that exist today. Food stamps, child subsidies, housing subsidies, etc. basically all blew up and the cost was minor in comparison to the cost of other projects but it was easy to pick on because we have a mentality that poor people are poor because they put themselves there and deserve it so spending money on them is wasteful.

The reality is Republicans havn’t been able to set a budget properly since Nixon. They only bitch about deficits when out of power.

Retard. Only people who bitch about spending are those who are jelly about getting to spend it.

Republicans get sold out.

Entitlement Programs 101

It's worth a google, kids.

they do it sometimes, but they have to be careful who it affects, if it mostly affects minorities in cities, they're good, if it affects rural folks it's bad...it's tricky gig these days because of the depressed state of living standards cause rural people now also get big chunks of gibs in various places...

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Republicans were never ever fiscally responsible. It always a myth.

Democrats are the fiscally responsible ones. Makes sense considering they are high IQ urban liberals who believe in science and math

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All Republicans ever do is explode the budget deficit, then bitch at Democrats over it.

Republicans also always crash the economy.

Libtards are super duper fiscally responsible!

>bitching about $114 million cost
>trillon-dollar deficit in Trump budget
L0Lno fgt pls

It's easy when their voters are morons.

They spend on the credit card- that's all they ever do.

Post YFW you remember that Reagan gave all spic illegals amnesty, permanently altering America's demographics, creating a gigantic leftist voting bloc, and encouraging the deluge of shitskins coming today.

yep

bumperoo