If I may, here's three.
Large and structural tax cuts. Temporary tax cuts are a fiscal stimulus that help an economy through a recession, but the Administration pushed permanent tax cuts whose negative effect on the budget lasts long after the immediate need for anti-recession stimulus passes.
No meaningful reduction in govt spending, indeed major increases in some govt spending. Again, these increases are structural (e.g. Medicare drug benefit) rather than temporary fiscal stimulus that goes away when the recession ends. These also contribute to a large structural budget deficit.
No meaningful push for energy conservation or alternative energy sources, resulting in no meaningful reduction in the growth of US oil consumption. If the world's largest oil user reduced its oil demand even modestly, there would be a large impact on oil prices.
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