Interesting. Thanks for bringing this up — God knows the MSM never would. It just stands to reason, though, that GDP would increase during a war, doesn’t it? You have several rather important sectors of the economy, most notably manufacturing, that need to increase their output to keep the war running, which will stimulate the economy (far better than anything Congress can do, I might add).
Regardless, though, the national debt is increasing. Bush’s tax cuts were good, but they were only half of the story; if you want to lower the debt, you have to cut spending AND taxes. As it is now, you have the government spending more than it ever has, but the tax cuts rolled back the amount of tax revenue so there’s less money present for them to spend. This means they have to keep borrowing money against the future to fund all their blessed little programs, which is what has run up the national debt.
