The Republican Solution to Inflation Is to Kill Babies and Rob the Elderly
Fiscally irresponsible conservatives have driven our country to the bring of ruin
Trump loving fascist conservatives never offer any solution to a crisis. Instead, they gleefully point at problems and use them to gain political points so they can win office and gain more status and power.
When faced with the issue of inflation, conservatives will only tell you what the government is NOT allowed to do.
“I’ll tell you this much, this shouldn’t be taken as an excuse to tax the wealthy! That’s just off the table. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.”
“Well, can we cut the military budget?”
“ABSOLUTELY NOT!”
Then conservatives sit there grinning at you like a wolf. They don’t even try to offer a feasible solution. The only thing that’s left if you take taxing the wealthy and cutting the military budget off the table is eliminating social programs for vulnerable Americans.
The ONLY solutions that Republicans are willing to consider are taking away health care from children and robbing retirees of the social security they paid into their whole lives.
Oh, and they won’t do anything to make the cost of health care more affordable either. We’re not even allowed to talk about that.
The problem is that we let Republicans get away with their infuriating and entitled attitude all the time. All they ever say is what we’re “not allowed” to do. They never offer a solution. The reason you can’t corner them and get them to admit their final solution is because it’s so reprehensible.
Conservatives know that following their suggestions to defund social safety net programs will kill people and they don’t care. Instead of saying it, they just use the coded language of white supremacists and try to bully everyone around them into blind obedience. It has to stop.
Fiscally reckless conservatives
Conservatives don’t deserve to call themselves ‘conservative.’ They spend like money they don’t even have is burning a hole in their pockets, then they turn around and accuse liberals of being irresponsible.
All you have to do to shut them up is cite the fact that the majority of the US national debt was accrued due to their terrible policies. The absolute failure of the Trump presidency is one of the largest single contributors to the debt.
At the end of fiscal year 2020, the debt was $26.9 trillion. Trump added $6.7 trillion to the debt between fiscal year 2017 and fiscal year 2020, a 33.1% increase, largely due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and 2020 recession — Kimberly Amadeo
If you voted for that narcissistic lunatic, you basically turned over all the money your children will ever earn so he could dump it into a dumpster fire. But Trump is just the latest symptom of a disease that stretches back to Ronald Reagan.
We can have reasoned debates about federal deficits, taxes, and spending programs. But the naked lies from Republicans demonstrate that their approach has nothing to do with what is best for the American people. They have made it abundantly clear that their priorities are all about more money for the wealthy elite and an obvious power grab for those in office. It is beyond time to bust the myth that the GOP is the party of fiscal responsibility. They are nothing if not reckless and irresponsible — Nancy LeTourneau
Sooner or later, this entitled and idiotic attitude was going to come back and bite us. The inflation of 2021 is just the beginning. People have been sounding the alarm for years, but like with climate change, conservatives deny reality.
As a result of the federal government’s enormous debt and deficits, substantial inflation could break out in America in the next few years. If people become convinced that our government will end up printing money to cover intractable deficits, they will see inflation in the future and so will try to get rid of dollars today — driving up the prices of goods, services, and eventually wages across the entire economy — John H. Cochrane
That worst case scenario is what appears to be happening. If we hadn’t defeated Trump in 2020, it would have been worse. However, as always, opportunistic conservatives are trying to use a crisis they created as a weapon to attack their political opponents. If history is any indication, Republicans will be able to leverage this to get themselves back into power to run up even more debt.
Using inflation to attack Biden
Biden has been president for just over eleven months. The Trump presidency was one of the most economically catastrophic failures of administration in the history of humanity. We’ll be feeling aftershocks of Trump’s incompetence until the end of our lifetimes.
The Trump tax cuts will reduce revenue and increase the deficit; tax cuts total $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. While the Joint Committee on Taxation expects that the cuts should stimulate growth by 0.7% annually offsetting some of the lost income, the deficit will increase $1 trillion over the next decade — Sean Ross
Conveniently, the Republicans are fully committed to disregarding the fact that Trump ever even existed or that he made blunder after blunder. They care nothing for getting the nation back on track. They’re only concerned about returning to power, and they’ll sacrifice anyone and anything they can to get there.
[N]ew data released today shows how price inflation is eating into many of those higher wages. Prices rose 6.2% in the past year, threatening to completely negate gains — Eli Rosenberg
Once again we see this very basic and accusatory approach from the US media. With inflation on everyone’s mind, this would be an opportune moment to emphasize that the federal minimum wage hasn’t seen an increase since 2009.
Doesn’t that seem blatantly unfair? Why isn’t anyone asking why the federal minimum wage isn’t automatically tied to inflation? Instead, the media steadfastly refuses to discuss it because they’re only concerned about the anxiety of rich people.
Inflation is a tax the poor pay to support the rich
The irresponsible fiscal agenda of conservatives repeatedly punishes the poor. Conservatives oppose giving struggling Americans any opportunity to receive a better education. Conservatives oppose any effort to raise wages for working class people. Conservatives oppose providing people living in poverty with adequate health care.
On top of all that, their insistence on funneling all money to the richest fraction of a percentage of Americans undermines the value of anything that trickles down to the poverty class.
Conservatives resist the idea of a wealth tax on the obscenely rich with every fiber of their being. Yet their policies are designed to make a wealth tax on the poor inevitable. Inflation doesn’t really affect rich people. A billionaire remains a billionaire. But for poor people, inflation puts them at a level of economic vulnerability that essentially turns them into slaves.
That’s what Republicans want. They want a poor and desperate population that’s easy to control.
The Republican lie makes no sense
Republicans don’t want to raise taxes on the wealthy. They don’t want to reduce any of their preferred programs. The only thing that’s left is social safety net programs.
The problem is, America doesn’t spend enough on social safety net programs to make any difference! Republican math doesn’t add up and we shouldn’t be teaching it in schools.
About 8 percent of the federal budget in 2019, or $361 billion, supported programs that provide aid (other than health insurance or Social Security benefits) to individuals and families facing hardship — Policy Basics: Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go?
You can’t reduce our 30 trillion dollar national debt by paying 361 billion annually. That won’t even cover the interest! After social safety net spending, the only thing that’s left is social security, and we PAID INTO THAT! That’s OUR money!
The inescapable truth is that the Republican demands make it impossible to ever do anything about inflation or the debt. Taxing the rich is the only possible choice. They are the ones with the money. Nobody else has enough money to pay off the debt.
Also, keep in mind that a lot of that debt is made up from trillion dollar bail out payments to help the rich when their massive businesses hit economic hardship. Rich people are holding on to the money that created the debt. Why should they be allowed to keep it?
Fiscal responsibility
The irresponsible conservative attitude towards inflation and the national debt represents yet another in a series of reasons why we shouldn’t bother to try to find common ground with Republicans. They refuse to even entertain the idea of a functional course correction. They’re driving us right over a cliff and laughing all the while.
If we had a responsible media, newscasters would mention Trump’s tax cuts every time they mention the word inflation. Instead, they’re using inflation to attack Biden’s Build Back Better plan.
The solution for America is not to keep piling on the burden of the overworked, the vulnerable, the innocent, and the infirm. We already make our working class citizens suffer too much. The United States has already squeezed as much money, labor, and life out of the poor as they can.
You cannot get blood from a stone.
At some point, common sense has to prevail and we have to demand the rich pay their share. That’s our money anyway, the government just handed it over to them. Why do Republicans insist that the only way to solve our debt crisis is to always, always, always, print more money and hand it over to the rich?
That doesn’t work! It’s insane! That should be OBVIOUS to everyone! Why do we let them get away with it?