Republicans, at the same time that they are claiming that a $50 billion investment in America’s infrastructure is a budget-buster, are pushing to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent of Americans. That’s a Boehner.
Would we be better or worse off today if the Bush tax cuts at the upper end of the income distribution had been used instead for a decade long program to rebuild infrastructure? My answer won’t be hard to guess.
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This is not an economic proposal at all. It is an ideological one disguised as an economic one.
Their proposal is based on conservative ideology to shrink government by cutting both government expenditure and revenue.
These are people that think that “government is the problem.” So their solution to governing is not governing and leaving it to ‘the invisible hand’ which is code for the hand in the till. You know, “to the victor belong the spoils.”
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Unfortunately, without the mechanism that is supposed to be the journalism profession, the public has no chance of getting a clue about the ‘why’ of ‘what’ is happening to them.
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The Democrats are the party of no ideas, the Republicans are the party of really crappy ideas.