Do Republicans Really Care About Inequality?
All one needs to do to see the difference between what Republicans are saying and Republicans are doing is to look at the current session of Congress. The very first item on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) to-do list was passing a bill authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. That project would indeed create thousands of seasonal jobs, but only about 40 permanent ones. It would have virtually no impact on the U.S. economy. Moreover, the public would get nothing in return, unless you count greater levels of global warming.
That’s not to mention other items being pushed having nothing to do with serving the greater good. A short list: House Republicans have introduced legislation to restrict abortion (the melodramatically titled “fetal-pain bill”), to dismantle part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law and to starve to death the president’s modest executive action on illegal immigration.
Liberaland awaits your “like” on Facebook
Copyright 2015 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
6 responses to Do Republicans Really Care About Inequality?
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
raypc800 February 12th, 2015 at 11:14
Yes Republicans do actually care about Inequality. They have push numerous pieces of legislation that shows to all that they want inequality to thrive. As long as the average American has more then a dime in their pocket. The GOP will push to get nine cents of that money up to the very rich. See I just showed you that the GOP cares about Inequality!
fancypants February 12th, 2015 at 12:37
lol good point !
if you cheat the gop ? they have their ways on making you pay
raypc800 February 12th, 2015 at 12:14
Yes Republicans do actually care about Inequality. They have push numerous pieces of legislation that shows to all that they want inequality to thrive. As long as the average American has more then a dime in their pocket. The GOP will push to get nine cents of that money up to the very rich. See I just showed you that the GOP cares about Inequality!
fancypants February 12th, 2015 at 13:37
lol good point !
if you cheat the gop ? they have their ways on making you pay
Scopedog February 15th, 2015 at 22:40
No. As simple as that.
Scopedog February 15th, 2015 at 23:40
No. As simple as that.