In describing Republican opposition to higher taxes on the super rich on the PBS News Hour, Senator John Cornyn of Texas referred to them as “job creators.”
This equals or possibly even surpasses substituting “death tax” for “estate tax” for disingenuous creativity.
Inherit a fortune or win a $20 million lottery and one instantaneously becomes —not rich— but a job creator!
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The Republican Party has become very doctrinaire. This is not conservatism.
Conservatism, going back to Edmund Burke, involves a pragmatic reliance on what has worked in the past and militates against blind ideological prescription. But that is precisely what today’s GOP has been doing: parroting 30 year-old articles of faith regardless of the circumstance.
Recession? Cut spending anyway! Deficit? Don’t you dare raise taxes! Rigid ideological purism is not conservative.