{"id":5969,"date":"2019-05-07T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2020-02-07T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T20:28:24","slug":"the-federal-budget-aka-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-fiscal-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5969","title":{"rendered":"The Federal Budget (aka there&#8217;s no such thing as a fiscal conservative)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The federal budget numbers for 2019 and 2020 are, of course, estimates &#8230; but it perplexes me how persistent the myth of the &#8220;tax and spend&#8221; Democrat and the &#8220;reduce government spending&#8221; Republican is. There&#8217;s no party <em>shrinking<\/em> the federal budget. Having a huge increase and then dropping back down to where you started isn&#8217;t much of a &#8220;decrease&#8221;. And outright increasing certainly isn&#8217;t a decrease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the difference is &#8220;tax and spend&#8221; and &#8220;just spend&#8221; &#8230; the fiscally conservative position should always be &#8220;don&#8217;t spend money you don&#8217;t have&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/FederalBudgetTrendThrough2019-1024x481.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/FederalBudgetTrendThrough2019-1024x481.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/FederalBudgetTrendThrough2019-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/FederalBudgetTrendThrough2019-768x361.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/FederalBudgetTrendThrough2019-750x352.png 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/FederalBudgetTrendThrough2019.png 1506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal budget numbers for 2019 and 2020 are, of course, estimates &#8230; but it perplexes me how persistent the myth of the &#8220;tax and spend&#8221; Democrat and the &#8220;reduce government spending&#8221; Republican is. There&#8217;s no party shrinking the federal budget. Having a huge increase and then dropping back down to where you started isn&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[904,81],"class_list":["post-5969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-us-government","tag-budget","tag-federal-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}