What a classic show on +Morning Joe this morning! Sage #Joe Scarborough and his republican echoes +Chuck Todd, were addressing an issue Jim Tankersley, the economic editor at the Washington Post, is writing a six part series about dealing with, “Middle Class Woes”. The background of the issue is based on the fact we all know, which we all know; the increasing corporate profits and incomes of the economic elite along with the complete stagnation and even lowering of wages of the middle class. They tied this to the increase in productivity per worker and mentioned the part played by robotics. They addressed the issue of the current difficulty of getting a college education and training in skills trades. They broached the issue of the lack of entrepreneurs across the nation. The discussion was complete except for one thing. Of course, “small government, cut taxes no matter what” Joe mentioned taxes as being the focus of arguments in congress—he can not forego mentioning his time as an elected representative—and with an air of wisdom, argued taxes have nothing to do with the problem.
I am here to tell you that cutting taxes is the problem. Joe and his Republican colleagues are advocates of the theme, which is starve the government and make it small enough to “drown in a bath tub”. Not one Republican seems to understand what government is and what government does; that certainly was true for those setting around that table this morning. They are driven by a painfully simplistic logic; they are tough free-living independents who need no one. They translate this to mean they do not need government. OMG.
Consider the argument that cutting taxes do not matter to obtaining skills need to find a job—the central thing they just argued was at the heart of the economic problems in the United States. Bush cut taxes and we had a recession, which caused our national debt to skyrocket, which they argue is justification for cutting social programs including funding of public schools and universities. Unbelievably, they cannot make the connection with declining availability of education in the Nation. State governments do not have the money to support state universities; for example, North Carolina just cut—again—university system support by 25%. The university administrators raised their salaries by an undisclosed amount and student tuition by 3%. The point is that as state support falls, it shifts the burden onto the backs of the students and their parents. It is usual for students to face $50,000-year tuition. Student tuition is so high that 1). Students cannot afford it and; 2), Those few who do, end up borrowing so much money they are in debt by hundreds of thousand of dollar when they do graduate. The same is true of trade schools; education cost money. We all benefit from educating our young people; that is what democracy does for us. Paying taxes gives us collective benefits. Government economic stability is a product of the IRS does, the unit of government from which Republicans just cut funding—again. They used it, along with other tax-cutting issues, as a campaigned issue and won control of congress. Politicians easily used the innate greed of the American voter elect people who will work against their own interests. Just like Joe and his "jokers" this morning, they can no see the connection between taxes and the collective good of the country, the collective good of government. They work to earn it and want to keep it; they do not want liberal leeches, like students, taking it from them. The only conclusion possible is that while Republicans, as the confused Joe Scarborough and Chuck Todd this morning, are lashing out at taxes and liberals, they are the real leeches; they are whipping their own backs.
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