Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Infrastructure

These are the things that are constant in the Republican Party's political agenda:
  • Tax cuts, primarily for the wealthiest taxpayers to get the tickle-down effect
  • Deregulation, because corporations will always do the right things without government rules
  • Privatization, because turning operation of essential public services over to private profit enterprises always results in better service at less cost
  • School choice, because religious indoctrination isn't allowed in public schools
  • Increased defense spending, because it's an efficient method of transferring public tax revenue to the private sector
  • Tort reform, because eliminating corporate accountability produces lots of high-paying jobs and lower costs for consumers
  • Reducing or eliminating social safety net services and functions, because they're fairly sure most of the people receiving benefits aren't Republican voters, so why waste money on them?
This is basically everything the GOP has been offering as an agenda for nearly 40 years. They keep recycling the same stuff year after year while pretending to be innovative by changing the labels and some of the terminology.

PS: Sometimes those meaningless symbolic gestures that Republicans love just look like the manifestation of psychosis instead.

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