The Post & Courier has a really striking article up over how the "fiscally responsible" Republicans controlling state government over the last decade or so were such a lot of village idiots that their obsession with pandering to big business and millionaire homeowners with tax cuts has led to their present ideological contortions to justify how they have no choice but to screw the least well off in South Carolina for years and years to come.
Life is really a pretty simple proposition: when you cut enough taxes, you raise less revenue. Politicos know this. By letting it happen, they tied their own hands and then weep that there's nothing they can do but cut more taxes to try, inexplicably, to raise more revenue because that's what GOP orthodoxy says will happen. In the meantime, the poor must suffer because they don't give enough money to Republican legislators.
In the meantime, the population grows, people age, government workers retire, infrastructure wears out- and what does that herd of loons getting their performance knuckles slapped by Schoolmarm Nikki's personal report cards say?
"Cut even more taxes."
Life is really a pretty simple proposition: when you cut enough taxes, you raise less revenue. Politicos know this. By letting it happen, they tied their own hands and then weep that there's nothing they can do but cut more taxes to try, inexplicably, to raise more revenue because that's what GOP orthodoxy says will happen. In the meantime, the poor must suffer because they don't give enough money to Republican legislators.
In the meantime, the population grows, people age, government workers retire, infrastructure wears out- and what does that herd of loons getting their performance knuckles slapped by Schoolmarm Nikki's personal report cards say?
"Cut even more taxes."
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