Given that it's an election year, I don't understand why Republicans wouldn't just want to stimulate the living 'eff out of the economy. One of the clearer examples of where ideological dispositions outweigh electoral incentives.
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It's possible they believe that. But, of course, parties almost always come up with electoral excuses/rationales when they want to achieve policy or ideological goals and given the current state of the pandemic that is among the thinner fig-leaves.
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You can literally force GDP to be positive with enough government spending, no? But there's probably a combination of genuine ideological belief (we had a similar fight in the Obama years) and "we're already screwed in November so may as well set down our marker now."
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Legit concern now about ramping up baseline spending to an unsustainable level in the out years
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That sort of happened with Obama too IIRC, as TARP was used to set a baseline of federal spending? I'm pretty sure a lot of Obama's claims of fiscal conservatism were based off that spend.
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And then you get "heartless Republicans gut budget" whenever they end temporary spending, while Obama claimed annual savings from the end of temporary war appropriations.
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