We have been saying a lot lately that Congressional GOP budget and tax policies look out for the wealthy by providing them with tax cuts, while at the same time hurt the poor by robbing social programs of funding in the name of fiscal responsibility and deficit reduction. While this is true, there is more to the picture. As Josh Lynn and Robert Gordon have recently discussed at Think Progress and in the American Prospect, the latest GOP policies are also responsible for discouraging hard work and self-reliance - two ideals endlessly promoted in conservative rhetoric. Lynn and Gordon write [the cuts] to Medicaid, food stamps, and child care, for starters — punish working Americans by undermining incentives to hold down a job, or by essentially classifying them as “too rich” to collect assistance. Additionally, the tax burden is blatantly being shifted from capital to labor, as witnessed by the House's recent passage of the tax reconciliation bill extending low capital gains and dividends rates. Policies such as these reward wealth while making it harder for the average working family to pay the bills.