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In reply to the discussion: GOP Goal - Completely Bankrupt US Government. Explode The Debt To $30 Trillion If Necessary. [View all]Martin Eden
(12,874 posts)Nearly all Republicans in Washington have signed Grover Norquist's "no taxes" pledge, and he has explicitly stated their long term goal is to shrink government to a size that can be drowned in a bathtub. They want to repeal FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society. This means getting rid of Social Security and Medicare, but these programs are very popular among the voting public and a frontal assault to eliminate them would be disaster for the GOP.
So their strategy is to make these programs "unaffordable" and force "hard choices" in the guise of fiscal necessity. And these hard choices will never come about without Huge. Budget. Deficits.
All of which goes a long way towards explaining why the policies of a Party that bills itself as fiscally "conservative" always end up exploding the deficit.