One thing that inspired me to start up again was this.
One side of American politics considers the modern welfare state — a private-enterprise economy, but one in which society’s winners are taxed to pay for a social safety net — morally superior to the capitalism red in tooth and claw we had before the New Deal. It’s only right, this side believes, for the affluent to help the less fortunate. The other side believes that people have a right to keep what they earn, and that taxing them to support others, no matter how needy, amounts to theft. That’s what lies behind the modern right’s fondness for violent rhetoric: many activists on the right really do see taxes and regulation as tyrannical impositions on their liberty. – Paul Krugman
If only things were that simple.
I can’t speak for everyone on the right or in the Tea Party movement, but the issue isn’t about taxing, it is about spending. President Obama has increased the National Debt by $3,381,066,487,958 since taking office. Under George W. Bush, it increased $4,899,100,310,609.
It really doesn’t matter what we think or should do. It matters what we can afford.