is just another expression of the anti-regulatory, supply side, inequality-creating model we know doesn't work.
you can't be a supply-sider and also pretend you are concerned about deficits.
bush's 2008 catastrophe settled once and for all what happens when you let the financial firms loose from regulation. their freedom comes at the expense of socialised losses. the subsequent deficit was the only available method of reconstructing the us economy.
what many republicans actually seem to want is to punish the poor by removing whatever safety net they have available to them.