GOP Presidential Candidates Tax-Cut Plans Are "Top-Down Class Warfare"

[Tom Joad]

Business as usual for the GOP.

At the absolute best, 10% of the population benefits from their economic policies, and the other 90% get screwed. Yet somehow they are able to dupe about 50% of the voters to vote for them.

The way I see it, if people voted based on purely selfish economic reasons then the Republicans would get at most 10% of the vote. And if people voted based on what's good for the country, the Republicans would get 0% of the vote. Therefore the only conclusion I can come up with is that there are a lot of voters that are just plain dumb.

“It’s straighforward and quite stark: Republicans support big tax cuts for the wealthy because that’s what wealthy donors want,” Krugman writes. “No doubt that most of those donors have managed to convince themselves that what’s good for them is good for America. But at root it’s about rich people supporting politicians who will make them richer. Everthing else is rationalization.”

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[BlueStreak]

Many years ago an old timer told me, "Back in the 20s, they still had us believin' that what's good for the mine is good for the miner..........Didn't take long to see what bullshit that was.".

Nothing has changed in this regard.

[Boreas]

Why do we refer to the billionaires who contribute millions to Republican politicians as "donors"? They're not donors. They're investors.