If you’re not reading Krugman you’re not reading.
Republicans are correct, government can be dangerous, especially when Republicans control the house. Cutting food stamps, cutting unemployment insurance, cutting Medicaid, cutting Welfare is not just cruel it’s unsound economic policy. The Multiplier Effect is Econ. 101. The more money in the system, the more it gets passed around. The more that money gets passed around the richer people get. Austerity is based on a lie. Seriously. The academic paper Republicans always cite for Austerity ended up using faulty Excel spreadsheets. (True) And so now we have a war on the poor. And just like Iraq it’s another war Republicans wage based on a lie. Why do we continue to trust the least educated to run our country? Read Krugman. He has a Nobel in economics.