Thought - Faith based tax cuts
After 28 years of the business wing of the Republican party selling tax cuts to the faith based wing of the Republican party, tax cuts have been taken on as an article of faith, not to be judged, questioned, or evaluated.
Every word of the dogma must be true or else all items might not be true.
Tax cuts are right because tax cuts have always been right.
This is the word of the Lord.
Every word of the dogma must be true or else all items might not be true.
Tax cuts are right because tax cuts have always been right.
This is the word of the Lord.
posted by mikevotes at
7:55 AM
3 Comments:
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Seneca
By
r8r, at 10:10 AM
Yes.
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mikevotes, at 10:17 AM
I've been thinking about this post for a few days now, and I think you have put your finger on something.
While tax cuts are the dogma, I believe it is more of a symptom of the underlying disease within the GOP.
"There are always simple answers" is the real axiom.
No matter what the crisis or issue, there is always an extremely simplistic answer on the Republican side, and anyone who points out the fallacies or impracticality of those answers is an "elitist" who lacks "common sense". It is the legacy of Rove, who made anti-intellectualism a core principle of the Party.
The less educated and less intelligent someone is, the more likely they are to believe that things are very simple, and the more likely they are to believe that they know everything. The more educated and intelligent someone is, the greater the likelihood that they comprehend how much they do not know, and how complex the ramifications of a policy are.
Thus, for all foreign policy issues we need to bomb Iran to solve any problem. Social problems are solved by school prayer and kicking out immigrants. Economic problems will vanish with tax cuts. And the failure of these simple solutions is dealt with by employing blind patriotism and blind faith.
It is an ideological approach that makes comic books seem "deep" in comparison.
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Todd Dugdale , at 4:25 PM
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