You know, one thing that astounds the bejesus out of me is why folks, so-called "regular folks," persist in framing fiscal/tax/economic matters in terms of political ideologies. All such things, most especially taxation, has long been well understood by economists, and with the advent and wide availability of supercomputer-enabled modelling capabilities, those understandings have been become vastly more comprehensively understood in terms of nature and extent. Despite that being the case, "regular folks" continue to allow politicians to guide the discussion about fiscal/tax policy in terms of "right wing" and "left wing" or "this or that" party or some other ideological bent. Quite simply, such matters need not at all be any more political than decisions about how to fix a broken bone.
Fiscal/tax policy solution approaches used to, prior to the maturation of empirical economics, need to be a political matter. These days, they need not be. Quite literally, we are at the point where an economy and economic policies can be explicitly and comprehensively managed to ensure that we don't again experience material downturns, but only if the management actions are not "half-stepped." "Half-stepping" being the main reason "nothing" ever actually works as advertised. Think of the kid who had braces and then didn't wear his/her retainer, and you'll know exactly what I mean.