Presidents and Congress, Republicans and Democrats: Spending, Taxation, Debt, and GDP
by Steve Roth, asymptosisCross-posted at Asymptosis. Thanks to yeoman’s work by Larry Bartels, Mike Kimel, and a host of others, we’ve seen that over many decades, the American economy has performed far better, by almost any measure, under Democratic presidents. Larry Bartels’ key graph mapping income growth by quintile, 1948-2005 (from page 33 of Unequal […]