Comment Comment by throw0101d From 2018, "Sadly, Fiscal Restraint Is No Longer a Core Principle of the GOP":* https://www.cato.org/commentary/sadly-fiscal-restraint-no-lo...When you've lost the Cato Institute…More recently in 2025, "The petrodollar, not GOP fiscal restraint, is what sustains our unsustainable debt":* https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5465671-republican-fisca...Not that I believe the folks at the top at the GOP really cared about it, ever, going back to (at least) Reagan; it was mostly an excuse to cut taxes on the wealth and cut social programs:* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/magazi... parent throw0101d 2 months ago
* https://www.cato.org/commentary/sadly-fiscal-restraint-no-lo...
When you've lost the Cato Institute…
More recently in 2025, "The petrodollar, not GOP fiscal restraint, is what sustains our unsustainable debt":
* https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5465671-republican-fisca...
Not that I believe the folks at the top at the GOP really cared about it, ever, going back to (at least) Reagan; it was mostly an excuse to cut taxes on the wealth and cut social programs:
* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/magazi...