Where did this warped view of "taxes can only be lowered" come from?

[LLStarks]

Who do I blame? Norquist?

[GomezLives]

1. Bob Barker - he wont let you bid over.

[Odin2005]

2. Reagan's puppet masters.

[groundloop]

3. Very simple, it all started with Ronnie Ray-guns and his trickle down voodoo

[Zoeisright]

5. Yep, trickle-down voodoo lies.

And NOBODY with a microphone on the left has been screaming about this.

[provis99]

4. the conservative South.

conservative Democrats were the only group advocating lower taxes, never tax increases, up until they started migrating to the republican party. Prior to about 1965, Republicans accepted or even advocated tax increases, even on rich people, when necessary. Northern Democrats also went along with tax increases.

As the conservative Democrats migrated to the Republican party, slowly taking control of the policy ideas, they adopted the lower taxes only weirdness, pushing out the former republican leadership which had been dominated by midwestern republicans and liberal northeastern republicans.

The Republican party is essentially the party of the conservative white South: Christian fundamentalist, militaristic, racist, homophobic,anti-union, xenophobic, and rampant with conspiracy theory nuts. The characterics of Southern politics have become the basis of Republican politics.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. Not the 'conservative' South.

The neo-Confederate South.

Just a few years ago, secession was a subject broached only by the very fringe of society - today we have governors and congress critter talking about it. All Republicans, of course.

Without the boogieman of international communism to scare them into playing ball with the adults, they really think their time is coming, sooner than later.

[LLStarks]

7. Neoconfederate. That's what I'm calling Neocons from now on. nt