“While the tax cuts were the immediate cause of the return to rising annual deficits, budget shortfalls long had been forecast to climb unsustainably...”
Socialism is unsustainable.
DEPOPULATE criminals, conmen, collectivists, Clintons, liars, looters, scumbags, socialists, tyrants, totalitarians from the body politic.
DEFUND their collectives, foreign and domestic.
live - free - republic
"Downward Trending", downward trending, . . . .
That's not the same thing as, "Stop digging !!!", is it?
And about 35% of Federal revenues. If there was a Sarbanes-Oxley reporting law surrounding the federal government that was actually enforced, half or more of the career politicians would be in jail.