Robert Reich: What Republicans Argue When They Have Nothing Left to Say (Cut taxes,

[pampango]

of course.

Republicans are desperate. They can’t attack Obama on jobs because the jobs picture is improving. Their attack on the Administration’s rule requiring insurers to cover contraception has backfired, raising hackles even among many Republican women.

Their attack on Obama for raising gas prices has elicited scorn from economists of all persuasions who know oil prices are set in global markets and that demand in the United States has actually fallen. Their Tea Party wing wants to reopen the budget deal forged with Democrats after Republicans got bloodied by threatening to block an increase in the debt limit.

So what are Republicans to do now? What they always do when they have nothing else to say. Call for a tax cut, of course.

It doesn’t matter that their new “tax reform” plan (leaked to the Wall Street Journal late Monday, to be released Tuesday morning) ... doesn’t detail how they plan to pay for the tax cuts. Or whether an even bigger whack would have to be taken out of Medicare than Paul Ryan’s original voucher plan – which would drowned many elderly under rising medical costs.

It doesn’t even matter that the plan would probably raise taxes on many lower-income Americans ...

http://robertreich.org/post/19602591080

[liberal N proud]

1. Cutting taxes will cure all problems

So says the repbulican manifest.

Cutting taxes achieves everything the republicans want, without the funding, you can't run a government, you can't fund education and you can't provide social services to those who need them.

Of course they will always find a way to fund their wars keeping the military industrial complex healthy.

[JHB]

2. Variations on a theme