Bad Takes: Despite Republicans' claims this election cycle, they're not going to improve the economy

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Bad Takes: Despite Republicans' claims this election cycle, they're not going to improve the economy
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Even though the GOP trots out fresh talking points every election, the core of its economic plan remains the same: give the rich a lot more money. 2022Election Midterms Republicans RepublicansAreTheProblem Economy Inflation

U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington of Texas is among the Republicans interested in serving as House Budget Committee chairman. Wait until you hear what he has planned.

The economy sucks and Biden’s in charge. Republican candidates in the upcoming midterm elections are hoping those two incontestable facts will lead voters to the obvious conclusion that handing our financial risk management to the opposition party is only too reasonable. Put aside that much of the GOP has condoned intentional suspensions of electoral democracy, so there's little guarantee that once we hand them power, they’ll hand it back should they lose. Put aside the nightmarish prospect of forced childbirth becoming federal law. Put aside treating migrants like dirt and banning books in school and trigger-happy policing and another mass shooting every week., which erupted just in time for Halloween. Ignore snatching trans kids from their parents.

But GOP candidates are explicitly discussing drastic cuts to Social Security and Medicare, including reanimating long-dead privatization schemes. "The four Republicans interested in serving as House Budget Committee chairman in the next Congress said in interviews that next year’s deadline to raise or suspend the debt ceiling is a point of leverage if their party can win control of the House,"Needless to say, that game of brinksmanship could yield disastrous consequences.

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