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ELI5:what is the difference in economic policy between Republicans and Democrats? (U.S.)

edit: thank you all for your comments. all quite helpful. I was also interested in the explanation of the Republican and Democrat viewpoint of International economic policy as well.
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Democrats want to put money into social programs.  They believe that given the chance, most people will work.  However there are a significant percentage of people who are not working because of issues surrounding education, child care, health or other aspects of being poor.  Essentially they want to "help people up, so they can get back to work"

Getting more people to work will improve their quality of life AND bring in additional tax money (because working people pay more taxes).  Basically they want to soften the landing so when people fall off the ladder they can get back on and keep climbing. 

Democrats feel that if you give extra money to rich people they are only going to spend it on rich people things and that won't benefit poor people at all.

Republicans are the opposite.  They think that if you give money to people who are not working, you create an incentive to be a lazy ass.  They think that if you make it harsher to be poor, fewer people will want to be poor and therefore more people will work.

They also feel that if you give tax breaks to the wealthy then those wealthy people will use that money to invest in businesses who will turn that investment into jobs.

Generally republicans favor lower taxes in an effort to increase the tax basis.  Democrats want to increase the tax basis by spending money to bring poor people up to a level where they can be productive workers.