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Cutting taxes while spending like there is no tomorrow is what the modern republican party stands for.
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I wish I could say I disagree with you. I think the rank and file republicans and right leaning independents like me believe that the government doesn't have a revenue problem, but does have a spending problem. If we reduced the spending down to what the federal govt
should be spending money on, we could have tax cuts
and a budget surplus. At least the republicans
talk about reducing federal spending, and make all of us who wish for a smaller government happy.
The problem is politics. It doesn't matter who is in charge, there's always politics. Each side wants their own pet projects pushed through, so it becomes not give and take, but give and give. As in, I'll sign off on your war budget if you'll let me fund xyz to make my political contributors happy. The next thing you know we've got a several hundred billion dollar deficit, and no one is willing to give up his or her pet project. God forbid they do the right thing, after all there's fund raising to do before the next election cycle, and we can't do much fund raising if we don't take care of our political contributors. The whole process is sickening.