Chart: Bush Policies Dominant Cause Of National Debt

Source: TPM

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has updated and refined a widely cited chart, laying out the origins of the country's current fiscal trajectory. And as before, the lion's share of the problem comes from ongoing George W. Bush-era policies -- particularly deficit-financed tax cuts, which eliminated Clinton-era surpluses and left the Treasury poised for a huge hit when the financial crisis and economic downturn further eroded federal revenues.



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How could one person do so much damage? But then again, there are those who want to shrink government "to the size of a teacup" for whom this is good news. To those of us with a heart see this tragedy as causing pain to many people and from which we may never recover.

...BushCo...

Disaster.

Republicans rubber stamped Bush's Policies.

Why do we permit the Republicans to get a pass
when they were pushing these policies long before
Bush arrived?

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