Starve the beast is about forcing spending cuts by passing tax cuts first. People hate taxes. Plenty of people also use the opposite strategy of forcing tax increases by passing spending increases first. People love spending.

It has absolutely nothing to do with sabotaging the execution of public works project. You can't seriously think that Republicans are the cause of the graft, waste, and mismanagement associated with government infrastructure projects.

> You can't seriously think that Republicans are the cause of the graft, waste, and mismanagement associated with government infrastructure projects.

Most people think that it's the folks on the other side of the political isle from them that cause the problems.

Infrastructure problem costs too much? Is it the union construction workers that are inflating costs or the under-budgeted maintenance? There are a dozen convenient excuses that people of either party can blame on people not in their tribe.

Rah rah rah go our team, it's the other guys that are the problem!

> The tax cuts and deficit spending of former US President George W. Bush's administration were attempts to "starve the beast."

OK, so he was starving the beast in Iraq?

Ah nice find. Makes sense that it has a name.