ratbastid

Hey, your boys have said as much.

I've posted these links before, so I'm not going to quote them here, just give the URLs again.

The financial mismanagement of our nation isn't at all accidental or the result of incompetence. It's a deliberate scheme to bankrupt the nation and force smaller government.

http://www.pkarchive.org/economy/TaxCutCon.html This is long, the relevant stuff starts about 1/3 of the way down the page. The tone of this is pretty partisan, but it makes a pretty compelling case nonetheless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve-the-beast Wikipedia article, very thorough and factual.

This isn't a conspiracy theory. This was the stated financial policy of the Regan administration. "Supply-Side Economics" is the pretty face of it. There are many other articles there, ripe for the googling.