Hyperbole maybe, but there has been a decades long Republican strategy to starve government of revenues to reduce the size and the effectiveness of the federal government. They seek to reduce governments regulatory effectiveness over their business interests while working to shift the federal tax burden off the wealthy and onto average Americans. They enable the wealthiest individuals and biggest corporations as they move huge amounts of capital off-shore to significantly reduce federal tax revenues. Republicans truly desire to shift the real tax burden and reduce available income for those average Americans that sell their labor in order to increase their personal profits and increase the economic stress felt by most Americans. They need us to blame the federal government for our financial stress instead of the real cause, Republican (trickle down) economic policy. Unfortunately, the Republican plan has been working way too well. It almost destroyed the entire global economy.
If a foreign group or government were working to undermine the American economy with these same so called conservative economic strategies, it would certainly be called economic terrorism.
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