If Republicans cut taxes and raise spending, it’s “reckless spending or mindless Keynesianism” at best. If they cut spending and raise taxes, it’s “heartless/murderous austerity”.
Or maybe supply-side policies are unwarranted in an environment of low inflation, low unemployment and steady GDP growth.
Sure, tax cuts right now doesn’t sound like a good idea. But if they went for an across the board tax hike of 5%, raising Medicare/Social Security eligibility to 70, cutting welfare(besides SNAP/HUD) by 20%, and a federal VAT of 5-10%, the left would go crazy. It would be too complex for most to argue beyond “Balancing the budget shouldn’t require cutting funds to the poor and elderly.”
