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[10nisman]

The tax cuts helped to stimulate the economy as Americans were going to slow down spending and would have resulted in a severe recession.
There are many factors that contributed to the deficit and debt. Bush was not a debt hawk as much as I would have like either.

Bush was the only president in U.S. history to not raise taxes to pay for war -- his father did. Better to have a normal recession than just pump the bubble to create the mother of economic recessions.

Debt hawk? Bush was the most fiscal irresponsible President we've ever had. He drove massive deficits when we should have been generating surpluses.. He wasted trillions on wars vs. spending it on schools, infrastructure, etc.