How can the right wing justify the enormous debt that they have accumulated?

Question

It was their military adventurism and support of Israeli expansionism that fueled the terrorist's determination to attack the U.S. in the first place. Now they have left us in a costly quagmire with no end in sight. To what extent is their supposed agenda of smaller government and lower taxes a huge fraud in view of their costly practices? The lack of alternative energy research and development, the lack of spending on infrastructure, viable social issues (birth control,etc), protecting our borders, encouraging energy conservation, escalating medical, drug costs, on and on. Why borrow endlessly while cutting taxes on the most wealthy individuals? How, aside from evangelicals and small business men, can they retain the support of the middle class for which they only supply the fuel for the destruction of? How can Bush have even 29% approval since he only assists the top 2-5% of our citizens? This is the big mystery.

Answer 1

The answer to the main part of your question (about low taxes for richer Americans) has to do with what richer Americans spend. Rich Americans can pay upwards of 35 percent of their income in taxes while the poorest pay very little if any at all. If Bush cuts taxes for the rich Americans (which a lot of Liberals voted for in the first place), they will spend more of the money they earn because it is not taxed. If he tried to help poor citizen by cutting their taxes, they would not spend nearly as much as rich people because it would not mean as much to them because it is not as much money they get back. By cutting wealthy citizens taxes it may appear that he is only helping rich people but in fact he is helping all citizens who have jobs because rich people are spending more.

You may not agree with it, but that is the answer. It's the same thing Reagan did. Its called trickle down economics.