M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about a mind-boggling report related to government spending.
Arguably the height of hypocrisy for the American left is the audacious Make America Affordable Again campaign launched by congressional Democrats ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
The idea is to hammer Republicans — particularly President Donald Trump — early and often on pocketbook issues. So the same people that brought you the ill-named Inflation Reduction Act that raised inflation, the same party whose tax-and-spend policies unleashed 9 percent inflation on Americans, are going to tell voters that 3 percent inflation is a “crisis” only they can fix? You bet they are. Talk about the audacity of hope.
Of course, if Democrats really cared about the affordability problem in America they would have long ago ended their addiction to big government. Then again, too many Republicans are struggling with the same affliction. Per usual, it’s the American taxpayer picking up the tab for the government junkies.
In a new deep dive into the ever-growing monster that is the federal government, public spending tracker OpenTheBooks explores how the leviathan has feasted on taxpayer money over the last century-plus.
Federal spending per person has exploded nearly 10,000 percent since 1916, according to the analysis. That was the year President Woodrow Wilson campaigned for a second term on the slogan, “He Kept Us Out of War.” Within five months of Wilson’s second electoral victory, that slogan would prove to be just another politician’s broken promise. America entered the First World War — the war to end all wars — and Wilson and his fellow Democrats began spending like there was no tomorrow.
Wilson presided over a national debt that soared more than 700 percent during his tenure, from $2.9 billion to $23.97 billion. Yes, those debt figures seem quaint next to the $38 trillion obligation currently saddling the federal government — rising by $70,000 every second.
