Play the tune again

 

Republican are obsessed with cutting taxes.  As has been pointed out, the states with abortion bans in place now are the same states that don't have paid family leave for parents when a new baby is born.   

So give them money, and they want to cut taxes, even if that means not doing good things for people that need help.

Republican states are trying to use federal covid aid to cut taxes

There's this

"The spending decisions have troubled some fiscal experts, who fear that the push for aggressive tax cuts this year could leave state budgets lacking much-needed revenue in the event of a recession. The moves also have flummoxed local advocates, who say that every federal dollar devoted to lowering tax bills is one less available for targeted relief — from improvements in housing to investments in aging infrastructure.

“You have to look at the opportunity cost of what else they could have done with American Rescue Plan dollars,” said Esteban Santis, a budget analyst at the Florida Policy Institute."

followed by

"The GOP crusade began about a week after Biden signed the American Rescue Plan last year. The Treasury Department had not even started writing its set of draft agency rules when Republicans mobilized to undo the prohibition on using the money to cut taxes. Led by Arizona, Georgia and West Virginia, attorneys general from 21 states last March threatened action over a policy they saw as an unconstitutional encroachment on states’ rights."

So, play the tune again, GOP -- at the expense of the public trust.

We are not surprised.