Reagan was president and wouldn't technically be doing the spending himself , but he had his priorities and limiting deficit growth was not one of them. And yes the economy will get moving temporarily if you apply stimulus by cutting taxes and increasing spending(and it will get you re-elected most of the time) at the same time, even Keynes would agree to that. The problem is the ‘net’ revenue is negative and gets more negative. That is called the Santa Claus economic theory that more candy makes us healthy when we are overweight. (We need energy to exercise e right?)
Eventually we hit a wall. .
Please stick to the comments I made in my post. At no time did I state that we should continue deficit spending. Instead I stated we needed to cut spending to balance the books, and begin to pay off debt.
Reagan pushed through the tax cuts. They doubled the federal tax receipts. Please don’t tell me this was a net loss. It wasn’t and you should know it.
The president cannot control everything Congress does. Spending did skyrocket. He wasn’t introducing large new public mandate spending programs.