Perhaps the reason they did so this time was because the legislation also promised to reduce federal spending by $4.5 trillion over the next decade.
Most of those spending reductions are achieved by rolling back Fiscal Year spending to 2022 levels and then limiting increases in spending to one percent for the next ten years.
Even though the bill increases spending and debt, there are reasons a supporter of limited government might vote for it.
Historically, spending caps imposed as part of a balanced budget or debt ceiling deal do not last for more than one or two Congressional terms.
Surely lobbyists for the military industrial complex are already plotting to use hysteria over China, Putin, Iran, or one of the US's many other designed enemies to justify greater than one percent increase in military spending.
Too many Americans have bought into the lie that government can and should provide them with economic and physical safety while promoting "Global democracy" abroad. Therefore, the most important step in the liberty movement now is convincing more people to apply the same moral code to theft and murder committed by government as they apply to those same crimes by private citizens.
The government, at the very least, should be held to the same moral codes as the people it governs.
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