Reply #32: Same old plan to defund the left, masquerading as a stimulus package. [View All]

[Merlin]

It's the same plan Reagan innaugurated with the assertion "Government is not the solution; government is the problem!" Same plan Gingrich advanced while saying privately his goal was to "defund the left."

The myth proclaimed is:
Taxes are too high. If we cut them, and cut government social services, and "deregulate" business, then an economic boom will occur producing enough revenue to government to make up for the intervening deficits.

It is pure pie-in-the-sky, unadulterated bullshit. Its premise is false. Its promise is fanciful.

But we on the left have never adequately debunked that myth. We have never addressed it head on and given it the public hanging it so richly deserves.

Until we take this fable on and debate it publicly, and prove it to be nonsense, then one after another wolf in sheep's clothing on the right will come along to extoll it to an easily fooled electorate.

We have got to deal with this issue once and for all.