Paul Waldman explains why federal spending never goes down, and why that’s not a problem:
Republicans are right when they point out that federal spending increased significantly during the first two years of the Obama administration, mostly due to the stimulus bill Democrats passed in 2009 as a response to the Great Recession. Where they’re wrong is in describing that increase as something qualitatively different from what we’ve seen in the past. In fact, our federal budget has been rising steadily for the last half-century.
