And just what is that?
You cannot make a tax rate a principle. Tax rates are a dependent variable of spending.
The Republican tax "policy" has been corrupt since the Great Compromise of 1986, now on its last legs.
The notion that cutting taxes could cut spending, by "starving the beast", was plausible when Howard Jarvis and David Stockman were advocating for it, but that was 35 years ago. The theory has been proven false.
It's false because of the Reagan-O'Neill Compromise of 1986 - Republicans could cut taxes, Democrats could spend as much as they wanted, using bills of Credit and inflation to make up the difference.
Now we are at the end game of 1986. The dollar is ruined, the demand for "funding" has never been higher, and the peoples' willingness to "contribute" has never been lower.
And what is the Republican policy about all this? Is it "cut spending by $1.6 trillion immediately"? No, it is not.
Is it "taxation beyond the limits of the Constitution is theft"? No, it is not.
It's a pathetic loser whine to the effect that raising tax rates will hurt "the economy", as if they have done anything - ANYTHING - since 1986 to advance natural resource extraction, exploitation of those resources, invention, and manufacturing - the only important parts of any real "economy".
The GOP is a corpse, and it's time for a decent burial.
I can’t disagree with anything you said.