Raser’s Edge:  The Observation Deck—What about MY tax dollars?

How often have you heard the so-called fiscally responsible Republicans gripe about “MY tax dollars” being spent on programs that help less fortunate Americans like Medicaid and lunches for school kids.  “My God,” they moan, “I don’t want to see my tax dollars going to ‘those’ people.  That’s ‘socialism’ and I’m a white, god-fearing, patriotic American !”  So now Trump launches a trade war which will cost mid-American farmers a lot of money in lost sales. These farmers just happen to be the ones who foisted Trump upon us.  So what does Trump do?  He wants to give them 12 billion tax payer dollars to help cover their losses which his own trade policies will cause.  So for Republicans, it’s not okay to use tax-payer dollars to give a school kid lunch but it is okay to use tax-payer dollars to make up for farmers’ sales losses caused by a Republican president’s own policies.  I think we should add another term to the political lexicon.  Let’s call it “Trump’s capitalistic socialism.”