... 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.
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It's hard to put aside his history of misogynistic statements, though.
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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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I also love that KO continues to pander to fangirls with the purple ties. Well played, sir.
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