is wrong to blame this on a Democratic Congress.

As the figure shows, Reagan and Bush senior got almost exactly the budgets they requested in each of their 12 budget years.

Reagan:
The first budget — passed by all Republicans and a few conservative Southern Democrats.
This increased the debt by $144 Billion.
The next 5 budgets — passed by the Republican Senate and signed by Reagan.
The last 2 budgets — passed by a Democratic Congress
Totalled slightly less than Reagan requested.
G. H. W. Bush:
Democratic Congresses under Bush passed smaller budgets than he requested in 3 out of 4 years.
These four Democratic budgets totalled $14.6 Billion less than Bush requested.
G. W. Bush:
The first two budgets — Senate was split 50/50 and the House was Democratic.
Bipartisan and totalled $20 Billion less than Bush requested.
The biggest cause of deficits was Bush's enormous tax cut, mainly for the rich.
The next 4 budgets — the Congress was solid Republican.
The last 2 budgets — Bush vetoed modest Democratic attempts at spending.

"Supply-side economics" has been debunked and killed over and over and over. Yet I'm hearing Mitch McConnell barfing back the same old lies to Candy Crowley a few minutes ago, and the WSJ's Stephen Moore talking over Chris Hayes on Up. They don't call it "supply-side economics" any more.

It's no longer Voodoo either. It's Zombie economics and it definitely eats the "conservative" brains like Moore's and McConnell's.

How do we kill this zombie?

As you say, it has been debunked repeatedly. And yet they still spew it.

It will take voters educating themselves and most who need educating are too entranced by the right wing noise machine.

What I don't understand is how Republicans in office can still talk as if it works when the evidence is so overwhelming that it doesn't.

Thanks for the link.

They fabricators of "supply-side economics" weren't even economists.

In my Macro text there was a blurb about the Reagan era and the theories on economy at the time (related to supply side). I think the sentence was "Those theories have long since been disproven." LOL.

We went into the ideas in depth. Their major claim is that they can manipulate the supply curve but their math never worked and there is absolutely no empirical evidence to support their claim. The fact is that there is no known way to affect the supply curve in any meaningful way.

When I have confronted "conservatives" with this fact they invariably bloviate about their own business experience and how they and they alone create supply.

georgee W didn't have them + his debt exploded.