It never ends, because they never learn
Say it with me, folks: the liberal response to abject failure will always and forever be “MORE OF THE SAME!”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. leaders should be open to the possibility of a second stimulus package to jolt the economy out of a recession still causing job losses, House of Representatives Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday.
Just a reminder of how well Porkulus I worked:
But as I keep saying, it DID actually work — at its intended purpose, rather than the stated one:
Since the Reagan era, some conservatives have hoped to shrink government by “starving the beast.” Refuse to raise taxes, they figured, and eventually spending would have to fall.
It’s beginning to look as though the new team may have a similar strategy, in reverse: Increase spending, and eventually taxes will have to be raised.
The bottom line is this: You cannot run a progressive government of the kind Obama favors by collecting only 18 percent of the gross domestic product in taxes, which has been the norm over the past 40 years. Nor can you increase the tax take to 24.5 percent of GDP — which is what Obama proposes to be spending in 2019 — simply by making the rich pay more.
But rather than level with the American people about this, or lay out a plan to raise the needed taxes, the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress are putting the spending pieces of progressive government in place and apparently counting on the tax piece to fall into place later.
Hiatt is wrong about a lot of things in this article, but he has the gist of this part of it, anyway. And government power will be expanded, as more of the economy is brought under its control, and more of the liberal wish-list of socialist programs is put into place. That’s what this “stimulus” Trojan horse is really all about. RINO George opened the door a crack, and the Barrackorrhoids blasted it right off its hinges.
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