Austerity is a Con

It's all about ideology, not about improving the economy. Those of us who have followed the neoliberal frauds saw through them years and years ago.

Nothing new here:

So the austerity drive in Britain isn’t really about debt and deficits at all; it’s about using deficit panic as an excuse to dismantle social programs. And this is, of course, exactly the same thing that has been happening in America.

"I don't use it or need it, so why should I pay for it?" That is neoliberalism in a nutshell. They don't believe in anything called the common good.