Those who fund the Republican Party are opposed to being part of a progressive income tax system that would require them to pay a tax based upon a substantial share of the range of their vast wealth and compensation, allow environmental and corporate regulation, and live in a democracy they can't fully control. They want to be free to pl…
Those who fund the Republican Party are opposed to being part of a progressive income tax system that would require them to pay a tax based upon a substantial share of the range of their vast wealth and compensation, allow environmental and corporate regulation, and live in a democracy they can't fully control. They want to be free to plunder, pollute, and corrupt our government until it functions almost exclusively to their benefit. I'm referring to many of the 10% of Americans who own 90% of America's corporate wealth, and the relatively few billionaires and multi-millionaires who fund and control the R Party. When you realize the 2017 Republican Tax Act is still in place, and the radical, undemocratic, legislative function of the Republican majority on the Supreme Court over the last few decades, they are closing in on achieving their objectives, even with the Dems currently controlling the the top three branches of our government. Gutting existing voting laws, State voter suppression, and gerrymandering, and the Electoral Collage are hard to overcome, despite Dem consistently winning the popular vote over the last 20 years.
Which brings us to the nature and composition of the R Party or why Republicans have more recently focused on detailed group and individual data targeting of religious and racial populations, fictional school grievances, totalitarian social control solutions like book banning and burning, and autocracy over democracy, rather than lower taxes, a balanced budget, and the size of government issues. Most Americans would agree that Trump's promise of a middle-class tax cut that would hurt the wealthy, cause unrealistic growth, pay for itself, and eliminate the Fed debt and the deficits was a lie of equal magnitude to the lie he won the election. Moreover, the R Party is on record as the party that underfunds education and views a well-educated and informed society as a threat to their autocratic goal. Their interest in education is limited to a trained workforce for business, downplaying the the importance of a liberal education, stratifying educational opportunity, and profiting from education.
Despite Republican ideology, tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations have no relationship to economic growth and always end in a range of corporate welfare programs, higher debt, inflation, recession, widening income and wealth gaps, and unaddressed or under addressed critical challenges such as infrastructure investment, climate change remediation, and immigration, the three issues we need to address for a thriving and sustainable economy. The failure to address these critical issues should be quantified and factored into our Federal debt total so we would have a better idea of our direction, progress, and the quality of the leaders we are electing, rather than judging them by their bluster. There's a reason Trump put his school records, business failures, and taxes under legal lock and key and it wasn't because he was proud of them. Clearly, any business success he experienced was the result of his vast inheritance, inflation, and money laundering.
As Thom pointed out there are many reasons for the Republican embrace of racism, anti-Semitism, and what ever anti-ism Republican politicians think will fly. However, in all cases their prejudices are rewarded by their sponsors and utilized in place of constructive policies because if they told the truth about who they represent they would have no chance of being elected. When a politician doesn't address major issues and/or calls them hoaxes it is their tell that their agenda is to ignore the interests of America, by appealing to our worst instincts and low information. Trump created 10 trillion of new debt without addressing our critical challenges, undercutting our allies, breaking our treaties, trying to hide a Pandemic, and appeasing Russia. It required another 10 trillion Fed "backstop" to avoid a Great Depression, in just four years of his reign. Then there is the mess and division he left. For example, Russia wouldn't have pursued a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, if Trump had not Putin given a free pass in the Middle East and control over the global oil price:
Those who fund the Republican Party are opposed to being part of a progressive income tax system that would require them to pay a tax based upon a substantial share of the range of their vast wealth and compensation, allow environmental and corporate regulation, and live in a democracy they can't fully control. They want to be free to plunder, pollute, and corrupt our government until it functions almost exclusively to their benefit. I'm referring to many of the 10% of Americans who own 90% of America's corporate wealth, and the relatively few billionaires and multi-millionaires who fund and control the R Party. When you realize the 2017 Republican Tax Act is still in place, and the radical, undemocratic, legislative function of the Republican majority on the Supreme Court over the last few decades, they are closing in on achieving their objectives, even with the Dems currently controlling the the top three branches of our government. Gutting existing voting laws, State voter suppression, and gerrymandering, and the Electoral Collage are hard to overcome, despite Dem consistently winning the popular vote over the last 20 years.
Which brings us to the nature and composition of the R Party or why Republicans have more recently focused on detailed group and individual data targeting of religious and racial populations, fictional school grievances, totalitarian social control solutions like book banning and burning, and autocracy over democracy, rather than lower taxes, a balanced budget, and the size of government issues. Most Americans would agree that Trump's promise of a middle-class tax cut that would hurt the wealthy, cause unrealistic growth, pay for itself, and eliminate the Fed debt and the deficits was a lie of equal magnitude to the lie he won the election. Moreover, the R Party is on record as the party that underfunds education and views a well-educated and informed society as a threat to their autocratic goal. Their interest in education is limited to a trained workforce for business, downplaying the the importance of a liberal education, stratifying educational opportunity, and profiting from education.
Despite Republican ideology, tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations have no relationship to economic growth and always end in a range of corporate welfare programs, higher debt, inflation, recession, widening income and wealth gaps, and unaddressed or under addressed critical challenges such as infrastructure investment, climate change remediation, and immigration, the three issues we need to address for a thriving and sustainable economy. The failure to address these critical issues should be quantified and factored into our Federal debt total so we would have a better idea of our direction, progress, and the quality of the leaders we are electing, rather than judging them by their bluster. There's a reason Trump put his school records, business failures, and taxes under legal lock and key and it wasn't because he was proud of them. Clearly, any business success he experienced was the result of his vast inheritance, inflation, and money laundering.
As Thom pointed out there are many reasons for the Republican embrace of racism, anti-Semitism, and what ever anti-ism Republican politicians think will fly. However, in all cases their prejudices are rewarded by their sponsors and utilized in place of constructive policies because if they told the truth about who they represent they would have no chance of being elected. When a politician doesn't address major issues and/or calls them hoaxes it is their tell that their agenda is to ignore the interests of America, by appealing to our worst instincts and low information. Trump created 10 trillion of new debt without addressing our critical challenges, undercutting our allies, breaking our treaties, trying to hide a Pandemic, and appeasing Russia. It required another 10 trillion Fed "backstop" to avoid a Great Depression, in just four years of his reign. Then there is the mess and division he left. For example, Russia wouldn't have pursued a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, if Trump had not Putin given a free pass in the Middle East and control over the global oil price:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/08/wagner-group-libya-oil-russia-war/
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/17/donald-trumps-betrayal-of-the-kurds-is-a-blow-to-americas-credibility
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-betrayed-us-fleeing-kurds-condemn-u-s-decision-to-leave-syria
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/steve-chapman/ct-column-trump-oil-deal-gas-pricesi-chapman-20200415-iwwn3cpegngo5krsm6tfdycqvy-story.html