GOP redistributes wealth to wealthy

There are two types of government: one that serves the people, and the other extracts wealth from them. Republicans put the U.S. in the second category. Some of their scams are in plain sight.

Republicans are deficit hawks when not in office. Otherwise they claim tax cuts, paid from taxpayer debt, will bring prosperity, but mostly for themselves.

To pay for lost revenue, Rs cut your health care, Social Security, Medicare, welfare programs, public employee benefits. They cut higher education and profit from student debt.

They privatize (sell off public assets): schools, prisons, public lands, and crumbling infrastructure. They impose religious views on women’s rights, deregulate for-profit schools while keeping them white.

Lobbyists, well-funded thanks to the Citizens United decision, allow fossil fuel polluters to deny global warming, pharma to keep drug prices high, health care to remain a corporate feeding frenzy, banks to get bailed out when risky trades fail.

These all redistribute upward, sink the middle class, and make government unresponsive.

Maine is a cautionary example: their ballot listed three candidates for governor, two centrists together got most votes, but right-wing Paul LePage won, a result the majority did not want. Subsequently, Maine implemented ranked choice voting. Connecticut should be warned. Robert Vogel East Lyme