Opinion: Do budget deficits matter in 2020?
The National Debt Clock in New York on Sept. 20, 2018. By Ed Rogers Ed Rogers Opinion writer focusing on politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 1 at 2:13 PM So far, several Democrats running for president in 2020 and their allies in Congress have embraced socialism as more of a fashionable buzzword than as an economic plan. Let’s face it, there isn’t really a socialist economic model out there that Democrats can seriously claim they want to bring home to the United States.
None of America’s budget problems are new. We are spending much more than we take in. Today, the national debt is $22 trillion and counting. The numbers are so big that they have become meaningless. Voters and now even candidates appear uninterested in hearing about them.
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