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Tax cuts when debt is this high?
Los Angeles Times
|October 09, 2025
Re “Both parties are to blame for America’s reckless spending,” Opinion Voices, Oct. 3
JEMAL COUNTESS Getty Images for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation THE NATIONAL DEBT has doubled over the last 10 years.
CONTRIBUTING writer Veronique de Rugy argues that we have a tremendous national debt because of reckless spending. I think we ought to take a closer look at how the debt was increased by the last four presidents and what we can attribute the increases to. As a starting point, recall that when President Clinton left office, the national debt was $5.8 trillion, about one-sixth of today’s debt.
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