Honestly, that's not entirely fair. Republicans always promise to cut taxes and reduce spending. So it should work out. Problem is, they never follow through with the second part and only ever double and triple actual spending beyond what any comparable Democratic administration and legislature of their era ever achieve. It's quite astonishing, really--and such levels of astonishment are only bested by the fact that republican voters still, to this day, continue to believe that their representatives only ever do the complete opposite. All of this despite the decades of unambiguous data for them to consider.