11.19.07
Tax-and-spend Republicans?
I ran across this interesting little graphic showing that the Republicans are, oops, not the party of balanced budgets. We can watch as the national debt goes up with Republican administrations and down with Democratic ones.
So how can that be? On the one hand, the fact is that the Republican mantra since Ronald Reagan has been cutting taxes for the wealthy and pretending to balance the budget by eliminating social services—which made up only a small fraction of the money lost through those tax cuts.
Repubs are also into starting those pesky expensive wars. Hmm… Do you suppose if we eliminate health care to the children of the working poor, it will pay for a new war in Iran? No? Well, dammit, cut it anyway. Those lazy slackers, playing video games after they get home from kindergarten. Rich kids would never be such a bunch of parasites…
Never mind.
