A new group pushes the post-Trump GOP to reject its 'lazy' devotion to tax cuts

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

One of the biggest dilemmas for the Republican Party is what it should do after the Trump presidency, an eventuality that some on the right have been mulling since the early days of his administration.

In March, a group of conservative thinkers started a new organization called American Compass, which aims to move the Republican Party past clichés about Ronald Reagan’s policies.

“Applying conservative principles doesn’t mean just keep flipping through the 1980 playbook until you find the right tax cut,” said Oren Cass, a founding member of American Compass who serves as its executive director.

“It has to mean going back to the actual principles, and applying them to today's challenges,” Cass said in an interview on “The Long Game,” a Yahoo News podcast. “I think that’s something that a lot of folks on right-of-center have gotten, frankly, lazy about, and that there’s just a lot of entrenched orthodoxy that does not come in for questioning.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/a-new-group-pushes-the-post-trump-gop-to-reject-its-lazy-devotion-to-tax-cuts-100033178.html

I doubt that's going to happen. Self aggrandizing is about all most conservatives stand for these days.

[andym]

1. Tax cuts is all they have besides turning the calendar back to the 1920's or earlier

perhaps even the 19th century when it comes to government function and social rights. Their conservative SC justices are actually beholden to 1791 the year the Constitution was approved.

But never underestimate the power of selfishness.

[Midnight Writer]

2. I notice he doesn't actually list conservative's "actual principles", other then Invisible Hand BS.

[Me.]

3. THis Could Actually Be Good News If It Succeeds

[Jspur]

4. A civil war within the GOP over tax cuts would be great

because it's the only damn issue they ever run on besides racism. They have nothing else to offer to people besides these tax cuts aka free money for the rich.

[LeftInTX]

5. Worth the read

You never know what the cons will do..
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