[happymellon]

Not American so I have absolutely no skin in the game, so it's funny that your argument appears to be about something the other didn't say.

Republicans, much like the Tories here, appear to want to cut taxes because everything they say is about reducing government interference.

Not always a bad thing, but cutting taxes inherently means some services will get caught in the trim.

When your Department of Education releases things like this, I can see why you would ignore the highly emotional charged language

https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/fact-sheet-house-repu...

However I never see proposals from Republicans to improve education, just either cuts or demands to ban books. Do you have examples where they have proposed improvements to education? Without that then I'm afraid Republicans really do always to appear to be anti-education.

[peyton]

I think your view is perhaps twenty years out of date. Here’s the GOP platform with some proposals to improve education and reform the tax code:

https://prod-static.gop.com/media/Resolution_Platform.pdf

I don’t think any party is for slashing tax revenue anymore. The GOP wants a supermajority for raising taxes.

Reading the DoE press release you linked, it sounds like the objection is to double-dipping.

[supertimor]

I’m not sure if you read their education proposals, but their platform basically boils down to spend less money on public education and instead support charter schools, private schools and home schooling, etc., teach the bible in class, get rid of national educational standards, support abstinence instead of sex Ed, get rid of student counselling for contraception/abortions, get rid of government funded student mental health support, reinterpret Title IX to apply only to women/girls, and privatize the federal student loan program.

None these proposals are very education-forward at all, and are mostly just hot button issues to rile up the base. Each of these policies just decreases educational support and funding. How will any of these policies have any beneficial effect on the quality of education American’s receive?

Don’t even get me started with their stated tax policy. The Republicans’ entire platform on tax reform is to repeal the Johnson amendment, a ban on non-profit political campaign activity that prohibits non-profits (which includes churches) from participating in, or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for political office; and to make the tax code “so simple and easy to understand that the IRS becomes obsolete and can be abolished.”[0] This is a literal quote from the 2016 Republican Platform that you linked. Yeah, let’s just abolish the IRS. That’s a super realistic policy.

Their tax policy is just laughable.

[0] https://prod-static.gop.com/media/Resolution_Platform.pdf

[happymellon]

Cheers, I had a quick glance at it and didn't understand how it supported their position at all.

That was 2016, which was Trump who gave you folks tax cuts and attacks on education. Completely mad.

[supertimor]

Yep, I honestly don’t get how people can seriously read this platform and claim in good faith that these are valid policy positions. The “evidence” they linked to support their claim ended up instead just supporting your original point that they were trying to refute. Agreed. Just completely mad.