| This was your original question: > How did you come to the conclusion that Clinton balanced the budget? Having a surplus means your budget is balanced and then some. > When have any of these presidents successfully pushed for reducing the federal deficit during their tenures? Any actual reductions to the debt you’ve seen? You specifically mention deficits, and a surplus leads to an actual reduction in debt. > What’s causing you to focus on presidents rather than congressional actions? The same congress that was in charge during surplus was more than happy to put us in high deficit again. > How do you think fiscal policy keeps getting passed through congress when there’s largely two parties that have to agree to get it done? Gridlock is a great way of not spending money. More to the point: Clinton was ok with cutting spending as much as he was with raising taxes. He treated the deficit as if it were actually important unlike Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden. |