I live in Kansas...the petri dish for the grand Laugher experiment. The private sector hasn't been jumping in to create jobs since their taxes were cut to zero. The state can't meet it's obligations, and they have cut spending to the bone. We want to implement this on a national scale, but instead "squandering money" on housing and food stamps, they want to squander money on building up the military, building a wall and putting a trillion or so into infrastructure. so that tax cut won't generate enough new jobs to create all this new revenue to pay for this increased (well - shifted and increased) spending.
Nice story about your grandparents. Did they get a social security check when they retired? Did they use Medicare when they retired? Because don't look now, but the savings by cutting THESE "entitlement" programs (and the conservatives most certainly do view these programs as entitlements) will be where they will find the bulk of their money. It's just hard to use "entitlement" when showing a picture of a white grandma and grandpa beaming as they hold the cute grandbaby....It's much easier to get the support of "the base" by showing a black woman with 5 kids on food stamps. And they want to cut that....but make no mistake, they also want to kick grandma and grandpa to the curb as well.
Here's some advice for you....if your house needs a new roof and you put the job out for bid...if one comes back for $15,000 and the other comes back at $10,000 because they are using illegal labor, can I have your word that you'll go with the higher bid in order to make America great again?