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Racks up $4T in new national debt
Paying this back would mean taking money I already possess.
Doubles military spending
We had to, because it was necessary to protect all of our private property!
guts Medicaid, shutters thousands of post offices, and raises public tuition by another $5k/semester
Well, we had to be fiscally conservative, or we'd never pay down all that debt.
Gives away another $25B in industry bailouts
We had to protect critical infrasture. It's a national security concern
Approved sale of bailed out critical industry to foreign conglomerate
They can just do it better! Why don't you respect the free market?
More tax cuts to foreign stakeholders of US businesses
Shut up! You just don't understand how economics works!
Finally get a small bump in the child tax credit
This is Communism. America has fallen.
Spot on.
This has been 50 years of unrestrained, enthusiastically sociopathic market capitalism, and America has fallen.