... if this deal with the Republicans takes a dollar away from those people who do not have a dollar to spare while preserving the millions for those who have millions more, if this deal, sir, keeps intact funding the mechanisms we have for killing people while cutting the mechanisms we have for keeping people alive and healthy, then it is a betrayal of everything that makes this country great.
amen to that. I am so disgusted that we're even debating whether we should cut funding to the poor and elderly or tax millionaires more. Like, why is this even a question? People who would rather cut our social safety net than implement taxes to the very wealthy are morally unsound, tbh. They're pro-death and pro-suffering of others. Fiscal conservatism is just as motherfucking evil as social conservatism.
Fiscal conservatism is just as motherfucking evil as social conservatism.
Neither one is 'evil' when applied correctly. Maintaining a balanced budget and avoiding deficit spending are not bad ideas. Nor is incentivizing industry growth by reducing taxes at the right times and in the right places.
The thing is... Reaganomics, which is the brand of so-called 'fiscal conservatism' Republicans engage in has actually increased debt (Reagan himself took the debt from ~trillion to 3 trillion dollars, 300% increase), hasn't promoted business growth (in fact senseless deregulation has arguably destabilized the system), and really has been a fail overall. I mean hell even GHW Bush called it 'voodoo' economics-- but certainly didn't mind following it.
You say this and you sound very sensible, but I kind of want to tax every rich person and corporation into the very ground because I want them to hurt and for that hurt to stop *real hurting*. I want to destroy them. I want them to burn and hurt and even then they wouldn't hurt as much as we're hurting.
Sometimes I want a fucking communist revolution, despite liking democracy and realizing how badly that can go. I don't even fucking know. JFC.
Which, you know, just made me realize that sensible forms of conservatism are totally fucked right now. There's people like me who don't even want to hear the word "conservative" anymore, and then there's the wingnuts left in the Republican party who are just completely nihilistic and ignorant.
You know how Reagan started wearing a flag pin and everyone else had to do so after or be called unamerican (path dependency)-- the same thing has happened in economic conservatism, Reagan's (who clearly should've stuck to acting) policies were so absurd that everyone after had to top him off in absurdity
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amen to that. I am so disgusted that we're even debating whether we should cut funding to the poor and elderly or tax millionaires more. Like, why is this even a question? People who would rather cut our social safety net than implement taxes to the very wealthy are morally unsound, tbh. They're pro-death and pro-suffering of others. Fiscal conservatism is just as motherfucking evil as social conservatism.
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THIS times like 6 billion.
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Neither one is 'evil' when applied correctly. Maintaining a balanced budget and avoiding deficit spending are not bad ideas. Nor is incentivizing industry growth by reducing taxes at the right times and in the right places.
The thing is... Reaganomics, which is the brand of so-called 'fiscal conservatism' Republicans engage in has actually increased debt (Reagan himself took the debt from ~trillion to 3 trillion dollars, 300% increase), hasn't promoted business growth (in fact senseless deregulation has arguably destabilized the system), and really has been a fail overall. I mean hell even GHW Bush called it 'voodoo' economics-- but certainly didn't mind following it.
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Sometimes I want a fucking communist revolution, despite liking democracy and realizing how badly that can go. I don't even fucking know. JFC.
Which, you know, just made me realize that sensible forms of conservatism are totally fucked right now. There's people like me who don't even want to hear the word "conservative" anymore, and then there's the wingnuts left in the Republican party who are just completely nihilistic and ignorant.
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