What has the GOP done for you lately?

We're not going to sell off that much of public property to balance the books.

Well, they did loot the till for the benefit of the idle rich, they depressed the economy to siphpon off trillions in wealth for themselves, they started a needless war that cost 5000 American lives, botched another just war against an actual enemy and attacker of the country which a Democratic successor then had to effectively restart and finish, and they threatened retirees' pensions and health care...not to mention playing chicken with the fiscal health of the nation and holding the country for ransom to try to ram through unpopular and questionable budget cuts (a game they're still playing now as we speak) and pursuing policies to keep workers' wages down.

What a list of "accomplishments"...and they keep on trying using their control of a gerrymandered House as if they don't realize this record just cost them an election and may have cost them any chance to win the Presidency again in our lifetimes...

The question should be, what has the GOP done TO us lately?

And after Dems win, taxes go up on the top 2 percent and the government is funded an extra eight days what then? You still haven't solved the problem of the federal government spending more than what it takes in on a yearly basis. If Dems want their tax increase which isn't going to solve diddly squat, then Republicans should at least negotiate a REAL cap on spending.

No one claimed that increasing taxes alone would solve our problems.

The question that was up was: What is the logic behind thinking some form of tax increase is inevitable?

The answer seems fairly obvious to me, but I decided to elaborate.

If that's all they were doing no one would complain except asset strippers like Bain don't really do that, do they? They rig the game so that no matter what happens they make money and they do that by loading the company up with massive amounts of debt. That just doesn't help the company in the long run. I mean doing a hostile take over then loading the company up with debt so that Bain instantly gets it's money back then they sell of everything not nailed down to make more money and this is supposed to "help" the company in question?

Let us admit that in most cases they're not there to help, they're there to loot, and the real losers are lenders who get stuck with bad debt along with employees who usually all lose their job when the company sinks under the massive debt load. Purposefully taking out massive loans they know will never get repaid doesn't sound very honest to me nor very good for the economy. Yet without fail the asset strippers always load the company up with as much debt as they can carry. Notice how this is completely different from people actually investing in the company to make it better as that usually involves a net injection of capital into the company instead of a net extraction of capital out of the company?

Debt-jugglers aren't capitalists.
Capitalists produce things.
I don't know how conservatives got sold on this bullshit of licking the boots of debt-jugglers.

They're simpletons who got tricked into believing the ridiculous notion that if you're wealthy you must have done something to earn it, unless you're George Soros or part of the Hollywood elite. Romney is wealthy, therefore Bain must have been doing something useful and can't possibly just be an enterprise in shuffling paperwork to enable state-subsidized criminal looting from shareholders and bondholders.

The GOP has done the same thing for me lately that the Dems have: caused me to vote third-party.

I used to be a fairly solid defender of the "lesser of two evils" doctrine, and the two of them combined helped me see the error of my ways.

That's something, isn't it?