Starve The Beast Analysis

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believe that to large extent our current resources problems stem from the widespread adoption of an idea by Republicans called ‘’ starve the beast.’’ It says that the best, perhaps only, way of reducing government spending is by reducing taxes. However, ‘’ Starve the beast’’ is when the government create or increase the budget deficits by cutting taxes. For instance, by creating a deficit or even adding to an existing deficit will force politicians to cut the size of government in order to get spending below control. According to the article, ‘’ a total of $320 million was proposed for the construction of a bridge linking the town of Ketchikan, Alaska, with its airport on Gravina Island.’’ An example of the ‘’ starve the beast’’ since the…show more content…
Especially, when proponents of starve the beast argue that low revenues, and reducing deficits will give officials the reason to cut spending. Although the government have used starve the beast as a good reason for tax reductions, this topic has receive some support from the economists. According to Robert Frank, there is a waste in government because the politicians proposed a project, there are going to expect the voters to favor them since the consumers would directly benefit from it. However, some of them do not understand that they are being blind side by the politicians. As Grover Norquist, president of the anti-tax advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform, quote ‘’ I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.’’ This quote is explaining that since money is being waste, the government should not worry about spending any money anymore since no one really cares. For instance, if we want to see the economy to be moving in the right direction, the state should be putting the money in places like California because they need the money to fight air pollution from auto
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