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Can I ask a dumb question about the Tea Party
I should probably ask this on P&CE - but I'm scared of them.
Is the whole Tea Party plan to just bankruptcy the government? Is that so well known and obvious and I'm year late to this party. Because thats' what it appears their plan is, but they aren't saying that directly.
Re: Can I ask a dumb question about the Tea Party
The way I understand it- very simplistically- is that they want to shrink the gov't, have the gov't do and regulate less and therefore require less money and less taxes.
A friend of mine who is a tea-partier basically said that if we all paid less taxes we would give more to charity and the poor would be cared for in that manner, etc. Meanwhile she lives in a house that cost at least 800k about 2 blocks from public housing.
Ditto...I'm pretty sure the basis of the Tea Party is to reduce government spending and AVOID going bankrupt.
how small do they want to make the government? what do they still want to fund?
maybe I'm becoming a left wing conspiracy theorist, but it seems like they want to choke/starve the federal goverenment.
you could ask this question on PCE, but you'd have to word it differently.
As I understand it, they want to shrink the government and they want to drastically cut government spending. Which, okay, fine, I subscribe to the opposite school of thought but I get that reasonable minds can see a situation differently.
But in order to reach that goal, they ARE willing to shut down the government. They ARE willing let our credit be downgraded. A lot of the stalemates of the past year aren't the Rs vs. Ds. It's the Rs being pulled to the extreme right fiscally by the TPers, even if it's just not practical or realistic.
In terms of what they want cut? Eh. It's the whole "keep your government hands off my Medicare." you aren't going to balance the budget by cutting federal salaries or elimintating food stamps and the like. You're going to balance it by making drastic cuts in entitlements, and while some TPers are on board with that, others are less so (I think it was Michelle Bachmann's husband who received Medicare money for his clinic while she rails against the big bad government, but I'd have to double-check that.)
and then you have the socially conservative arm of the Tea Party, but there's debate as to how intertwined that is with the fiscal conservative arm (which was the original intent behind the formation of the TP IIRC.)