I will bet $10 you complained about the stimulus in 2010 under the Obama administration and how it added to the debt.

Now that another Democratic president is stuck for the second time in 20 years cleaning up a mess left by a Republican president and requires debt spending to do it, all of a sudden debt is bad again.

All your assertions about the stimulus not working and causing stagnation and inflation have already been proven false by history. They actually worked during the last recession. Biden is following the Obama/Democratic playbook from that period. The bid difference between then and now was that the 2010 recession was primarily economic. This time it is pandemic-driven and once we have knocked down the virus with widespread vaccinations the economic aspect should come back far quicker overall though there will some long term losses and pain for sure.

But speaking of debt- I saw your ludicrous assertion that the Trump tax cut bill of 2017 "didn't add one penny to the debt." How you could say that with a straight face, I wonder?

On March 9th, 2019 you wrote in The Hill: "the public debt, which is the accumulation of all deficits, increased to more than $22 trillion."

You then proceed to give your readers a huge bit of sophistry by blaming spending. You follow that up with the already disproven (zombie economic view according to Paul Krugman) that higher taxes slow growth. This is clearly NOT true as evidenced by history from the end of WW2 into the early 1970s with high progressive tax tables and long term growth!

From Forbes' Barnet Sherman three years ago: "First, while tax cuts or increases have some impact, the amount of either spurring or deterring economic growth is often exaggerated. As with any economic policy, there is some impact, but nothing approaching the extent it’s credited with.

The second is a logical extension of the first. Given that tax policy’s economic impact is limited, there must be many other drivers of the economy, both specific (such as interest rates set by the Federal Reserve) to broader demographic and technological trends. The U.S. economy is much more complex than just a percent change here or there in tax rates."

Quote: "President Reagan is famously reported to have observed that, as an actor, once he hit the top marginal rate—then 91 percent—he stopped making movies for the rest of the year. The result of sky-high marginal rates, this anecdote was supposed to prove, was declining productivity and economic growth. Endquote

Maybe Reagan was just lazy??

Anyway for other readers there is a really good graph at the link: http://www.opportunityinstitute.org/blog/post/tax-fraud-debunking-the-claim-that-higher-income-tax-rates-reduce-gdp/