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13. "...it's impossible to reduce Washington's budget without causing pain."
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 02:27 PM
Nov 2024

And by "pain" she really means "raising taxes," the one thing Republicans will NEVER do.

David Stockman admitted that Reagan giving small tax cuts across the board to all brackets was simply a “Trojan Horse” that was used to get approval for the HUGE tax cuts for the top 5%. “Trickle-Down” meant giving tax cuts to the rich. Stockman explained:

"It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory."

Because tax cuts are holy motherfucking "Magic Beans™" of Republican finance!! Tax cuts pay for themselves!!!

In Ron Suskind’s book, the senior members of the W. Bush Administration were shown to be what they were - opportunists - delivering goodies to the Republican "base" and damn the consequences.

The Republican Party is only interested in gutting government and eliminating taxes on behalf of the plutocrats who foot the bill for their many abominations.

You take a trillion dollars a year out of the economy and it all collapses.

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