If you don’t take your earrings out periodically,
the backing can become embedded in your earlobe.
Government spending has similar embedded characteristics.

What is an Earmark (Office of Management and Budget)

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.
Quotation from John Spratt

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
Quotation from Ronald Reagan