# Hahahahaha. Tea party republicans push for regressive tax hike.

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**Created:** [August 21, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-tea-party-republicans-push-for-regressive-tax-hike/593525 "2011-08-21T14:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-tea-party-republicans-push-for-regressive-tax-hike/593525/171 "2011-08-31T09:53:40Z")

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> [@Mr\_Smashy](#):
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> We can’t balance the budget by spending cuts alone, I realize that… but we also can’t grow out of it through tax cuts either. We need to do both.

The phrasing “we can’t grow out of it through tax cuts” makes it very clear that Mr Smashy is suggesting supply-side stimulus. (Tax revenues will eventually increase in a growing economy.) This was no typographical error.

> [@Kearsen](#):
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> I didn’t see Mr Smashy advocating a tax cut. I think he made a typo and septimus jumped all over it like it was fresh banana pudding. It is those types of hyperpartisan strikes that make me cringe every time I read the paper or watch the news (or for that matter, post here)

It was no “typo” – see above. I will agree with you, if it’s what you’re implying, that advocating further tax cuts is mistaken, but I don’t see how Mr Smashy’s sentence can be interpreted otherwise.

We spent more than a trillion on stimulus like TARP – but most of that was directed to prevent losses by big Wall St. investors. The FRB injected more than a trillion with its QE programs – much of that was directed to investment in East Asian economies. I don’t know whether to hope for another trillion of stimulus or not. It would be good if properly directed for a change but will it be? And is anyone other than Mr Smashy seriously asking for more tax cuts? 😕 :smack:

@ **Kearsen** - I do need to work on my tone. The fact is that I am easily irritated, because the matters we’re debating are very serious, and I’m tired of the hypocrisies, strawmen, misrepresentations, and hyperpartisism.

But you pretend to believe Mr Smashy made a typo (please reread and tell us if that is sensical) and then jump “all over [septimus] like it was fresh banana pudding.” Willful ignorance makes me cringe.

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