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Deficit Spending Accelerator Stuck-COLOR

Feb

2010

Deficit Spending Accelerator Stuck-COLOR — RJ Matson, Portland, ME

Matson depicts America's deficit spending as an accelerator pedal stuck to the floor, with Washington structurally incapable of slowing its borrowing despite mounting national debt. The cartoon illustrates how political incentives in both parties resist the fiscal discipline that economic theory demands.

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