Winehole23
10-28-2020, 10:10 AM
Spit balling:
-- Republicans pivot to austerity and obstruction.
-- Dems pivot to austerity, prove unwilling to play consitutional hardball to pass laws or appoint judges.
-- COVID-19 and economic trouble get a lot worse, Democrats get blamed for it.
-- Years of violent right-wing counterinsurgency.
-- Trump or family member elected in 2024.
https://aneconomicsense.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/federal-fiscal-deficits-fy1948-to-fy2020-1.png?w=584&h=402
Here's a nice twofer from ex-conservative Bruce Bartlett:
The basic strategy here is called “starve the beast (https://www.jstor.org/stable/24562740)”: it involves big tax cuts when Republicans are in power and hardline deficit reduction when Democrats are in charge. (Occasional Democratic control is actually essential to give Republicans political cover for spending cuts that might otherwise prove politically painful for them.) It worked perfectly during the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, and Republicans are now preparing to keep it going through an almost-inevitable Joe Biden administration.
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-- Republicans pivot to austerity and obstruction.
-- Dems pivot to austerity, prove unwilling to play consitutional hardball to pass laws or appoint judges.
-- COVID-19 and economic trouble get a lot worse, Democrats get blamed for it.
-- Years of violent right-wing counterinsurgency.
-- Trump or family member elected in 2024.
https://aneconomicsense.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/federal-fiscal-deficits-fy1948-to-fy2020-1.png?w=584&h=402
Here's a nice twofer from ex-conservative Bruce Bartlett:
The basic strategy here is called “starve the beast (https://www.jstor.org/stable/24562740)”: it involves big tax cuts when Republicans are in power and hardline deficit reduction when Democrats are in charge. (Occasional Democratic control is actually essential to give Republicans political cover for spending cuts that might otherwise prove politically painful for them.) It worked perfectly during the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, and Republicans are now preparing to keep it going through an almost-inevitable Joe Biden administration.
1321464828888829953