I have never heard a Republican talk about the budget when they are advocating a program they want. No Republican seems to worry about the 3 trillion that the our current wars cost will end up costing us. No Republican politian worries about a new tax preference that benefits only the wealthy. Regan's budget was cut by the Democratically controlled congress every year but to hear him tell it it was the Democrats that caused the tripling of the National debt under his administration.
Wisconsin's Gov Walker never mentioned the Budget when he cut corporate taxes by 100 million. Cutting local teachers take home pay by 5% ,when Wisconsin already pays it's teachers less than the nation average, while sighting a “Budget Crisis”, has much less to do with helping local school budgets that it does in a political calculation of who is his political power base.
How long are we going to let the Republican position that only Democratic concerns cost money go unchallenged.
When Republicans want to repeal the "Death Tax" so that billionaires kids and grandkids etc.. can live tax free is that a budget issue??? No one talked more about fiscal responsibility than Regan but the bottom line was that after 12 years of Regan and Bush the US dept was 4 times what is was when Regan took office. The budget was in ballance when the second Bush took office and in 8 short years he managfed to double it again.
ReplyDeleteRepublican poiotions don't talk about fiscal responsibility because they care about it. They make the argument because they know we care about our kids future.