Patriots for Freedom

The Left’s Long-Term Strategy in a Nutshell

Keith Hennessey explains it:

The strategy is simple:

• Increase government spending, especially through rapidly growing entitlements. At the state level it’s Medicaid.
• Wait. While you’re waiting, define deficits as the problem, rather than spending.
• Try to label as radical and extreme those who argue for slowing spending growth and preventing tax increases. The goal is to discredit these solutions as legitimate.
• Once deficits get large enough, shrug and say we have no choice but to raise taxes. This is especially true for entitlement programs directed toward the elderly, who have less ability to adjust to changed government promises.
• Argue we must protect low and middle-income from higher taxes, so upper-income taxpayers must bear the entire burden increase.
• Raise taxes on upper-income taxpayers.
• Rinse and repeat.

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