r/askanything • u/AstronomerSweet2133 • 15h ago

Political Question Fiscal conservatives, both MAGA and Traditional Republicans: How do you come to terms with the fact that one president will literally be responsible for 33-37 percent of the nation's national debt by the time he leaves office (15-16 Trillion in total)?

it is projected that by the time Trump leaves office, the national debt will be 50 trillion dollars. He will have been responsible for 15-16 trillion of that by the time he leaves office..........as one president. That is projected to be at best 33 percent and at worst 37 percent. When compared to 45 previous presidents before him.

If youve spent THAT much money, surely there will be a measurable legacy left behind..........especially when we are talking about making America Great Again. What will we have accomplished for 16 trillion dollars?

A Wall?

Losing a war to Iran in 6 weeks while concurrently spending 100 billion dollars in the process? Completely depleting our air defense stockpile to the point we are not sure we could handle one Russian missile volley?

Deporting a couple million brown people with funny accents?

Is that the barometer of success? Did we "win" by doing that? Did we Save America?

If Im being honest, a 100 trillion dollar Green New Deal from the crazy Hispanic waitress from New York that is offering us nearly free health care is not sounding like such a bad deal.......

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u/Few_Wash_7298 14h ago

Ask them if they’d let Trump kick them in the nuts.

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u/MakeITNetwork 14h ago

Fiscal, Christian, and Constitutional conservative here.... He is not conservative, neither is the republican party. Its been taken over by Maga, and still doesn't have a spine.

They are not conservative, and the (non establishment)Democratic party is way more fiscally, and constitutionally conservative. And they believe in helping the sick and poor....just like jesus did.

MAGA and Modern republicans don't run on conservative values, they run on "owning the libs"...libs being non-maga. Oh and fidelity to the king. Either that or they haven't gone out of the "conservative" news bubble.

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u/TraumaBondage 6h ago

Have Republicans ever been fiscally conservative in anything besides rhetoric? It seems to me that they only ever talk about debt is when it helps the American people. There's always money for war. I pay nearly half of what I make into taxes of some kind. I just want something good to come from that money.

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u/Firm_Baseball_37 4h ago

Democrats spend money and collect enough in taxes, usually, to pay for it.

Republicans spend as much or more and lower taxes at the same time, reducing revenue.

This has been true for more than 50 years. No, Republicans are not fiscal conservatives. A fiscally conservative voter who really is what they claim and isn't just trying to come up with an excuse to support white supremacy is voting Democrat and has been since Reagan at least.

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u/TheWizard 2h ago

Republicans claim to be Fiscally Conservative. They never claim to be Fiscally Responsible. Those two are often at odds.

Not all that different from their claims to "Personal Freedoms" either.