Starve the Beast

Post date: Mar 13, 2011 4:10:41 PM

Bruce Bartlet, of Forbes Magazine, believes that to a large extent our current budgetary problems stem from the widespread adoption of an idea by Republicans in the 1970s called "starve the beast." Apparently, the Republican support of decreased tax rates would inevitably cause the government to cut programs.

Forbes Magazine and Wikipedia have two useful articles concerning this issue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/06/tax-cuts-republicans-starve-the-beast-columnists-bruce-bartlett.html