Quote:Of course they can -- but you'll never see Republican Politicians actually speak out against it.  They'll call of cuts to food stamps and other programs and bring on a surfer guy who happens to be cheating the system as an example of why the $59B social programs needs to be cut -- and then in another breath praise businesses for taking $90B in corporate welfare as 'fairly taking advantage of the system'

 

If you cut food stamps, but leave corporate welfare, is that not class warfare itself?  

 

You're pushing a narrative that just isn't true:

 

Republican Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., together with Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor, have proposed a bill to end the ethanol mandate, a blatant boondoggle for agribusiness.

 

Along those same lines, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., introduced bills this month to abolish the Export-Import Bank, a government agency that subsidizes U.S. exports

 

Toomey teamed up with Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire to craft a farm-bill amendment that would shrink the sugar program

 

Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., has proposed a bill to end all energy tax credits

 

Republicans are even joining Democrats in targeting Wall Street’s goodies. Late last year, Congress refused to renew a special bank-bailout provision called the Transaction Account Guarantee. And conservative Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has signed onto a bill with liberal Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, to reign in big banks and discourage them from becoming even bigger.

 

https://www.aei.org/publication/republic...e-welfare/

 

Granted you won't hear most of that on the news, but the narrative doesn't define reality.

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