from the column:
“A poll one week before the election about Republican social and economic policy is a red flag for Republicans. 60% of Americans would prefer to reverse the Republican 2017 tax cuts than cut spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This poll was taken a week after Senator McConnell said the Republicans would defend the tax cuts and cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in order to curb the growing deficit, caused in significant part by those very tax cuts.”
“Poverty in the United States is extensive and deepening under the Trump administration whose policies seem aimed at removing the safety net from millions of poor people, while rewarding the rich, a U.N. human rights investigator has found. ‘
Sad!
This is an excellent article on white racial resentment and it’s impact on views of the safety net.
It states: “White Americans are more likely to favor welfare cuts when they believe that their status is threatened and that minorities are the main beneficiaries of safety net programs, the study says.
The findings suggest that political efforts to cut welfare programs are driven less by conservative principles than by racial anxiety, the authors conclude.”
Sad!
This column makes an excellent point. When Republicans want to cut safety net programs, their plans should not be called “reforms”. They’re cuts. This also applies to the new tax law; this is not tax “reform”. It is tax cuts, primarily for wealthy people and corporations. Sad!
Sad! 