[scooby321]

Insanity. See Ronald Reagan's 3 spending cut to 1 tax hike or GH Bush Tax deal.

taxes were raise cuts never happened.

[tennmountainman]

You don’t even have to go that far back.

Look at the recent continuing resolution deal. The GOP sold it as massive spending cuts, but once looked at closely, was DC trickery.
And very small nominal spending cuts. A snake-oil deal.