• @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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          293 months ago

          Clinton actually produced a large budget surplus the last two years of his Presidency. If this trend of financial stability (supposedly a characteristic of Republicans) had been continued, the US would have become debt-free years ago. Instead our national debt is sitting (and growing) at $35 trillion dollars, equivalent to about six years of total tax revenue.

        • @acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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          233 months ago

          the person above is an asshole but not entirely wrong. there was a good amount of deregulation under clinton, like repealing glass-steagall for example. not as bad a reagan but still not great.

          • katy ✨
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            13 months ago

            most of that was the fact that republicans came in and controlled congress

              • katy ✨
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                13 months ago

                line item veto doesn’t exist and congress had veto proof majorities…

                • @acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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                  13 months ago

                  that’s just false. the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act which repealed glass-steagall passed the senate with 54 votes, which is a LONG way away from being veto-proof.

                  glass steagall can hardly be reduced to a “line item”. he could have vetoed the entire bill and told congress to send him something without repealing glass-steagall.