Liberals look at the national debt under Obama, which has gone from $10.6T to $17.3T and say “imagine how bad poverty would be if we hadn’t invested an extra nearly seven trillion dollars in programs that redistribute wealth”.
Decent people look at the extra debt and say, “imagine how much the private sector could have done to reduce poverty if those seven trillion dollars had been available to create real, productive jobs”.
“his policies have had little impact overall on poverty.”.......
I don’t call adding 13 million people to the poverty roles as having “little impact on poverty”.