{"id":39539,"date":"2011-09-18T15:46:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-economics-of-the-libertarian-tea-party-is-just-nuts\/"},"modified":"2011-09-18T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:46:54","slug":"the-economics-of-the-libertarian-tea-party-is-just-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/the-economics-of-the-libertarian-tea-party-is-just-nuts.php","title":{"rendered":"The economics of the &quot;Libertarian Tea Party&quot; is just &quot;nuts!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-wlH6d87Mr68\/TnS_UnW5opI\/AAAAAAAAVcQ\/gzcMxBQbwxo\/s1600\/LibertarianPartyKansas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ef9d_LibertarianPartyKansas.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>\"government spending cuts in a recession is unwise\"<\/strong><\/p><p>Newspaper in Kansas, Staff Editorial from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winfieldcourier.com\/articles\/2011\/09\/16\/opinion\/staff_commentary\/doc4e72bb66bafe7784843654.txt\">Winfield Daily Courrier<\/a> \"Tea Party economics?\" Sept. 16:<\/p><blockquote><p>The Tea Party is having an impact beyond its numbers.<\/p><p>Its cry for smaller government and more liberty resonates with many Americans.<\/p><p>But let&rsquo;s admit something.<\/p><p>The Tea Party&rsquo;s economics are nuts.<\/p><p>First of all, calling for government spending cuts in a recession is unwise.<\/p><p>That call makes sense for the long term, but it can only cost jobs in the short term.<\/p><p>Secondly, blaming regulations for the recession is nonsense.<\/p><p>Almost all the same regulations we have today were in place during the booming 1990s and the recovery after 9\/11.<\/p><p>The financial crisis of 2008, if anything, came about because of inadequate regulation.<\/p><p>Thirdly, the idea that a president or a governor gets credit &mdash; or blame &mdash; for prosperity or lack of it is politics, not economics.<\/p><p>Ours is an economy of cycles.<\/p><p>The Libertarian Tea Party mantra that less government somehow makes more private sector jobs ignores this basic reality.<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ef9d_7828681836623105417-6601435790921205066?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"government spending cuts in a recession is unwise\"Newspaper in Kansas, Staff Editorial from the Winfield Daily Courrier \"Tea Party economics?\" Sept. 16:The Tea Party is having an impact beyond its numbers.Its cry for smaller government and more liberty resonates with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/the-economics-of-the-libertarian-tea-party-is-just-nuts.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}