They are putting all their faith in the strength and resilience of the U.S. economy, the theory being that whatever they need to spend now to get the engine humming again will be dwarfed by increased output down the road. That's a lot like going out on a spending spree on the hope that you are going to get a job, but such is their thinking. Also, they see the enormous individual wealth of the country as largely ill-gotten and more rightfully theirs, to be taken by the power of taxation as necessary for the purpose of redistribution to those on whose backs it was gained. This crowd could not find much fault with the propostion, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."