"He is dusting off the old Republican playbook and bringing back the strategy known informally as 'Starve the Beast,'" said one advocate. "In this case, Social Security is the beast."
How about we cut subsidies on oil, and corn, heavily tax carbon output, and put heavy tariffs on virgin plastics… Doing that would increase life expectancy, AND improve quality of life.
For some of them, they are. There’s a whole thing in the Bible about how bad the world has to get (including a war in Israel) for the second coming to happen, and they’re trying to force it.
A ton of evangelicals believe they are living in the end times and there’s no reason to care about the future of the planet or nation anyway.
How about we cut subsidies on oil, and corn, heavily tax carbon output, and put heavy tariffs on virgin plastics… Doing that would increase life expectancy, AND improve quality of life.
That’s the opposite of what his side wants. It really seems like they’re actively trying to force the apocalypse.
For some of them, they are. There’s a whole thing in the Bible about how bad the world has to get (including a war in Israel) for the second coming to happen, and they’re trying to force it.
A ton of evangelicals believe they are living in the end times and there’s no reason to care about the future of the planet or nation anyway.