The US is re-learning now what the UK and Western Europe learned in the 1870s. The US learned it in the 1930s and 1940s (New Deal and Social Security), but unlearned it under years of GOP fiscal mismanagement since Reagan: while “small government” and low or no taxes sounds great, it doesn’t build or maintain critical infrastructure, doesn’t keep citizens safe and healthy, and doesn’t ensure a functioning public education system that produces the workforce that devises and executes it all.
“Small government”, “low taxes”, and “thoughts and prayers” for thousands of gun violence victims each year are ideology, not sound policy. Countries running on ideology (i.e., on fumes) turn to authoritarianism (communism, fascism, Peronism, Mullahs) when their citizens don’t see through that ruse.
The US is re-learning now what the UK and Western Europe learned in the 1870s. The US learned it in the 1930s and 1940s (New Deal and Social Security), but unlearned it under years of GOP fiscal mismanagement since Reagan: while “small government” and low or no taxes sounds great, it doesn’t build or maintain critical infrastructure, doesn’t keep citizens safe and healthy, and doesn’t ensure a functioning public education system that produces the workforce that devises and executes it all.
“Small government”, “low taxes”, and “thoughts and prayers” for thousands of gun violence victims each year are ideology, not sound policy. Countries running on ideology (i.e., on fumes) turn to authoritarianism (communism, fascism, Peronism, Mullahs) when their citizens don’t see through that ruse.