Amazes me how many people still think these bullshit republican economic policies will work.
Why? The easiest concept for people to understand about the government's effect on their day to day lives is taxes. You tell people that you're lowering their taxes, they understand that they'll certainly have more money in their pockets(likely at the cost of pay raises that would've otherwise occurred, of course). If you can convince people that this will miraculously also benefit the economy, well, that's a convincing argument.
On the other hand, you tell them that the government's going to come up with some complicated programs to bring wages up and insure that good healthcare is available to all, it takes more thinking to understand that. And, furthermore, they have no certainty that such plans would directly benefit them or that they'll even function properly.
Republicans really hit the political nail on the head when they started focusing on taxes. And, the best part is, when they muck around with lowering taxes and eventually murder the economy through that, when they get voted out for that... The democrats have to come in and be the one to raise taxes, which in turn allows them to run on lowering taxes all over again and get people's votes immediately afterward. And the cycle continues.
When an experiment fails, you try a different one. These guys are whacked out
It's less an experiment at this point than a religion.
