"And so it has proved again and again. Reagan’s tax cuts, George W. Bush’s tax cuts, Donald Trump’s tax cuts all failed to deliver." Polls also show drops in popularity. What exactly do you think she got right?
> In the 1970s, Irving Kristol, the editor of Public Interest, was explicit that politics must trump economics. The political advantage tax cuts would provide to the Republicans was so historically imperative they should be blasted through whatever the effect on the budget. ‘The neo-Conservative is willing to leave those problems to be coped with by liberal interregnums
Even if they get kicked out as a result, that just gives them some economic chaos to complain about from opposition. They kicked off this latest decade of austerity because Labour paid nurses too much and so caused a global recession.
I thought I had clearly said this.
(There is a great blind spot in the thinking. Military defence, public order, the court system for arbitration between billionaires, essential infrastructure like national roads, and more besides: all of these must be state functions. Truss and her co-religionists haven't heard the maxim, "be careful what you wish for, because you might get it.")