The House Republicans are all over the airwaves touting their beloved tax cuts as the answer to it all. Their alternate stimulus bill, which was defeated, had mostly tax cuts and little spending. Never mind the fact that even Republican economists say that tax cuts are less effective than infrastructure spending for stimulating the economy.
When Obama said in his inaugural address that we will restore science to its rightful place of respect, he did not simply mean laboratory experimental evidence. I think he meant broadly the scientific attitude of basing conclusions on verifiable evidence.
Abundent, reliable economic models have shown that infrastructure investment benefits the economy and that tax cuts do not.
So why do Republicans insist on what will not work?
Are they so wedded to the tax-cut ideology that they refuse to consider evidence? "Don't confuse me with facts."
Or do they really, actually want it to fail, so they can blame Obama and the Democrats? Rush Limbaugh said as much, "I want him to fail."
Ralph
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