The major power the right has in USA is veto power, so that massively popular policies (say lower drug prices) are virtually impossible to implement. Sure, some psychos want even more (flat tax, Lochner courts, repeal 19th Amendment). But really the right has a lot of victories
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You're just saying that policy is to the right of where you'd like it to be. But the point is that policy is also to the left of where they'd like it to be. They floated all those plans to cut Social Security and privatize Medicare because that's what they wanted to do--now DOA.
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"We can't make the stingiest welfare state in an advanced country even stingier" is not that much of a policy loss when you think about it.
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Also flat taxes aren't even their goals they love a complicated tax code rife with loopholes!
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Yeah, if you're a GOP wealthy donor, would you rather have a flat tax or would you prefer a nominally progressive tax that is in fact deeply regressive in such a byzantine way that nobody can tell if your near-zero tax rate is even legal?
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Yep. Their main policy goal is "preventing Democrats from enacting their policy goals" because once things like the ACA get bedded in it becomes ever-more difficult to get rid of them.
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Today, average plutocrat is paying much less in taxes than the janitors cleaning their buildings. Flat tax would be a big step backwards in tax policy for the ultrawealthy.
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Who needs a flat tax on the books, when you can pay next to no tax in practice?
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paying zero actual taxes is a huge win vs a flat tax. Sure it's not uniform but hey
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