Perfect post over on TPM:

Our country is in debt because of the trickle down tax cuts.

For the 205 year before the unrealistic Republican tax cuts of 1981 we had a total debt of $1 trillion.

During those 205 years we paid for World Wars, the Korean War, having 500,000 troops in Vietnam, the space race, building the strongest military in the world, the New Deal, airports, bridges, and the interstate highway system.

In the 31 years since trickle down tax cuts we’ve added $15 trillion to the national debt

Do you see the connection or do you believe in coincidences?

It was no accident that the debt got as high as it is.

It was all part of the thirty year Republican strategy called “starve the beast,” by which Republicans have worked to reduce taxes and increase the national debt as large as possible – all to create the supposed “debt crisis” that we now face and to use that crisis to eliminate programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and a slew of other programs (EPA, SEC, Planned Parenthood, collective bargaining, etc.) that the Republican class has never been able to eliminate through the democratic process. This “starve the beast” Republican strategy has been openly acknowledged for years.

Now that most of those unrealistic tax cuts have become permanent they will eventually achieve their goals.