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The House GOP's proposal: Israel aid by defunding the IRS
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Lmfao that is not at all what Republicans mean by smaller government. They literally mean "no government regulations of any kind"
https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333
"Many believe that government is at best superfluous and at worst a drag on a free market. It has long been their aim to cut taxes to “starve the beast.”
Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 at the urging of President Reagan, declared in 2001: “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.”"
They want government taxation and regulation at ALL levels GONE (except when it's convenient for their political agenda, we see)
What you're talking about is their disingenuous pretending that they care about local government and "states' rights" to hide their real agenda.
(Funny enough "states' rights" was also used as an excuse to maintain and expand slavery before the Civil War. So never forget that bigots have always been liars because they know they're wrong and evil.
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/causes-of-the-civil-war/#:~:text=A%20key%20issue%20was%20states,Another%20factor%20was%20territorial%20expansion.)
I don't know where you got your information from, but they're wrong. I lived through the 80s; I've been listening to Republicans talk about "small government" for 40 years. They only care about being able to handicap taxation and regulations that cost corporations money.