{"id":22921,"date":"2026-08-22T22:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22921"},"modified":"2026-08-22T22:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:46:24","slug":"without-the-w-bush-and-trump-tax-cuts-the-us-debt-to-gdp-ratio-would-have-been-much-more-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22921","title":{"rendered":"Without the W Bush and Trump tax cuts, the US debt-to-GDP ratio would have been much more sustainable."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without the W Bush and Trump tax cuts, the US debt-to-GDP ratio would have been much more sustainable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jared Bernstein on Debt\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XnHxzDcfmw4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without the W Bush and Trump tax cuts, the US debt-to-GDP ratio would have been much more sustainable. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XnHxzDcfmw4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[450,7,278,221,217,165,1559,770,10,2230,141,170],"class_list":["post-22921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-budget","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-george-w-bush","tag-history","tag-national-debt","tag-tax-cuts","tag-taxes","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22922,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions\/22922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}