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Originally Posted by Ferd
Rico Presidential submission of budget is kind of a misnomer.
Yes the current tradition is for Presidents to submit budgets. However, budgets do not get an up or down vote. they get re-worked....bigtime.
Presidents generally submit guidelines that they like and congress then goes about the business of fleshing it out as they see fit.
BUT at the same time, a president can submit a budget with 50% tax reduction and congress and pass/send him a budget with a 99% tax increase.
spending is the same. they have to work together to some degree, because a president can veto a budget if he wants to.
In the case of Reagan, what he asked for was far from what he got on spending.... but it was the compromise he was forced to accept to get dems to agree with tax cutting and standing up to the USSR.
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I hear what you are saying, Ferd, but it's also the President who signs off on whatever Congress sends back to him. That's why presidents get the credit or take the blame for surpluses or deficits.
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