Originally Posted by
doc0c
Fiscal conservatives are in favor of tax cuts in order to accomplish a couple of things:
1. reduce the size and scope of government
2. increase personal wealth
I'll assume you can form a thought and arrive at further conclusions from those two points.
Such folks never claimed to not care about the people who are truly in need of help.
Such folks also realize that they will have to sacrifice a lot of things through this process as well.
I know because I'm of the same mindset.
Lastly, there is no way achieve these goals in the near future.
Maybe it's because I'm too stupid to form a thought, but I'm not seeing here whether you think of cutting automobile subsidies. And in the national debate, I'm not aware of ANY sacrifices that Tea Partiers are prepared to make.
Congressional Republicans held up the Transportation Bill for more than a year because they wanted to cut proposed spending on non-automotive transit (which benefits mainly poorer people and big city Democrats)--but they never suggested any cuts to the infrastructure that THEY use.