The GOP Debate

I caught a little of the GOP debate from the Reagan Library. It was quite a spectacle as each man tried to be more conservative than the other. And not the compassionate kind. You could have titled the debate, "People We Don't Like and The Things We Will Do to Them."

One item that keeps getting emphasized are tax cuts and creating a "pro busines agenda." What is it that we have had in the last six years? Have taxes ever been lower? Has their ever been a political era more friendly to business, inwhich more regulations have been scuttled, more environmental laws ignored, more loopholes, cut outs and safe havens created? Has there ever been a time when a government has stooped lower to do the work of its corporate patrons? Can you really look at the Department of the Interior or the FDA and say these guys get in the way of making a buck?


I don't get it. If by "pro business" you really mean low taxes and no regulation in the name of the public, where is it that taxes are lower, regulations less, and there is indoor plumbing? Yet the candidates keep talking like this is the old USSR. It seems we have gone about as far as you can go on the laissez faire train and we see where that gets us -- a carnivorous, cronyist, and cruel capitalism.