GOP Tax Policy: What's the Big Plan? Does not compute.

[ProfessorPlum]

Here's what I don't get: The GOP maintains that we must never pay for anything because paying hurts the economy (raising taxes to pay our way supposedly hurts the economy).

They never want to "hurt the economy", so they will never raise taxes, so they will never pay for what we are spending, and they will also never pay off any of our current debts.

So what is the plan? At some point, we'll just belong to our creditor nations? We'll just become the "People's Republic of America" at some point?

Honestly, I don't get it - it's all one sided. And whoever takes over for this misadministration will have to raise taxes (unless they just want to see our whole country collapse), so the current GOP leadership is just putting "hurting the economy" off.

I mean, I know they are completely divorced from reality and everything - this question isn't quite as naive as it probably sounds. But don't the GOP folks in office now EVER want to be re-elected again? The coming disasters, either in economy-stalling tax cuts (their prediction) or in complete collapse of our way of life, will be laid squarely at their feet.

[ProfessorGAC]

1. There's Nothing To Get!

There are two phases of this:
The first is the Norquistians who truly want to "starve the beast" in Norquist's own words. They can then apply the Randian concepts of dismantling everything but the military.

The second are those who are simply disinterested in governance. They only think of politics and they are unwilling to sell a "pay as you go" concept to the sheep. They don't want to know how the economy works. They don't care. They don't want to do anything that makes it harder for them to get re-elected.

There really is no economic theory (hypotheticals yes, but no tested theories) that support the "low tax, borrow money" concept. And there's no theory that supports a minimalist gov't can truly function in a population of 300 million with a total asset base of over $18 trillion. Worse than that, there is no practical example of either.

They don't know or they don't care that these are stupid ideas. In fact, they don't know or don't care that there is ample data to show that the opposite of what they believe is what really happens in this world.
The Professor

[global1]

2. When They Lose In '08 - This Will Be Left Up To The Dems......

and the blame will be laid at the Dems feet.

Remember - the Repugs play the "Blame Game" better than the Dems.