I don't think the government functions badly at all.
We're 34 trillion in debt. I don't see how any can consider the government functioning well.
Government should break the budget into needs and wants. The needs will be the funds the government needs to operate. Everything else, set up a go fund me page and let people that like paying taxes fund those things. Maybe the government should start selling war bonds again.
I don't suppose that the Trump tax breaks had anything to do with that. Or maybe a pandemic either for that matter.
In this
millenium, we have avoided adding to the deficit one year. It was the very first measurement (The 2nd Bush's 1st year.)
link Trying to twist that into a Trump-specific issue seems a pretty weak argument.
Trump definitely added to the problem. But, it's an ongoing problem that started before his time in office.
Maybe throwing millenia into it is a little cheap (even if factual), but 23 out of 24 years isn't a one president problem. It's a systemic one.
