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Not really, no.
40% of US GDP is related to government spending (local, state, federal). The R's talk big about cutting spending but even they can't bring themselves to actually do it. The "Tea Party" doesn't fully understand the ramifications of how we've set up our currency (debt in reality becomes money, reduce debt you reduce your money supply, reducing economic development).
Taxes at the federal level serve a few purposes 1) a way to control inflation - print too much money (issue debt) and inflation increases. Do too little of it and the economy contracts. 2) Incentivize behavior such as home buying and child rearing.
Look at Japan's issue with an aging/declining population and the methods they are trying to employ to reverse it!
What you'll find is most higher educated, higher earning adults vote Democrat. The Republic base is the lower educated, and poorer areas of our country (just look at the Fox News demographics!). I always laugh when pilots, whom tend to be higher educated and earn more than your average worker (except maybe for the commuter guys) identify with the Republican base.
That's how you screw a population, divide them up over arbitrary issues, and then steal their money. That's exactly what is happening. The divide between D and R, is over social issues, not financial.
A great example is the debate of whether or not global warming is real. It's hilarious for me to watch because it doesn't matter if it is real or not. So the Earth is warming, who cares, the negative effects are a huge lie. The place I'm sitting at right now had two miles thick of ice on top of it not to long ago. When Niagara Falls reaches lake Erie, the Great Lakes will drain away, give me billions to save them. Welcome to planet Earth.