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Old 03-14-2015, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by whell View Post
Uh, no. Government spending, an absolutely opaque domestic policy and arbitrary tax policy is what lengthened the Great Recession such that it exceeded the average duration of any prior recession.
The same arbitrary tax policy existed under Dubya. He had ample opportunity to do something about it. Instead, he trashed the economy with a couple of wars, expanded Medicare and tax cuts, not to mention lax regulatory oversight of banks.
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