Comment: It's not everyone who thinks like that, but I can guarantee you that this exact line of thinking exists among a surprising number of people in the Republican caucus. "Freedom Caucus". 

Grover Norquist made one of the most powerful lobbying groups in DC on that exact premise. He claimed: "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." 

It's a pretty easy lie to make: Cut taxes (who doesn't love tax cuts?!), then complain that we can't afford to fund programs the cuts paid for. Wash, rinse, repeat until that baby is dead in the tub. Anyone wanting to argue that this isn't beyond the pale - look at how Trump is deliberately sabotaging Obamacare, messing with peoples lives, just so he can slap his name on some kind of replacement. Is that any less irresponsible?