Rep. Bob Good claimed the American people would not be adversely affected by a temporary government shutdown because, "most of what we do up here is bad anyway."
Step 1: complain about government spending, claim that it creates untenable debt/deficit (they don’t care which, their base doesn’t understand the difference.)
Step 2: insist Dems just make cuts to social programs to curb debt/deficit. Dems at least partially cave to keep government functional.
Step 3: immediately push to cut taxes for the wealthy and big businesses, creating a massive deficit in the budget.
The GOP’s core platform and greatest strength is lying and misinforming voters. Democrats consistently have lower deficits and lower taxes for almost everyone and still people think the GOP is the fiscally conservative party. I’m a young guy and have so many friends that always said Biden/democrats would raise their taxes - they’d never done their own taxes and had literally no idea.
Step 1: complain about government spending, claim that it creates untenable debt/deficit (they don’t care which, their base doesn’t understand the difference.)
Step 2: insist Dems just make cuts to social programs to curb debt/deficit. Dems at least partially cave to keep government functional.
Step 3: immediately push to cut taxes for the wealthy and big businesses, creating a massive deficit in the budget.
Step 4: see step 1.
The GOP’s core platform and greatest strength is lying and misinforming voters. Democrats consistently have lower deficits and lower taxes for almost everyone and still people think the GOP is the fiscally conservative party. I’m a young guy and have so many friends that always said Biden/democrats would raise their taxes - they’d never done their own taxes and had literally no idea.