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[mickmoranis]

HEY GUYS REMEMBER WHEN OBAMA TRIED TO GIVE US ALL FREE HEALTHCARE WHILE HE ALSO INCREASED THE MILITARY SPENDING MORE THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY?

LOL BOY DO I LOVE DEMOCRAT ECON POLICY!

[JurisDictum]

My point is that economically speaking, we have two rightwing parties.

1) the Republican party, who thinks we need to lower taxes, deregulate, increase military spending, and throw people off of welfare programs.

2) the Democratic party, who thinks we need to increase taxes like 1-3%, increase regulation, increase military spending, and "balance the budget" (cut social programs).

They take turns, so taxes stay more or less where they are, regulation is more or less where it is, military spending is constantly increased and social spending is constantly cut.

Cortez wants to transition to a "peace economy" where we don't constantly increase spending on pointless wars, and we look at effective ways of helping people rather than "regulation". This is all very radical stuff in our public discourse.

[mickmoranis]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My point is that economically speaking, we have two rightwing parties.

1) the Republican party, who thinks we need to lower taxes, deregulate, increase military spending, and throw people off of welfare programs.

2) the Democratic party, who thinks we need to increase taxes like 1-3%, increase regulation, increase military spending, and "balance the budget" (cut social programs).

They take turns, so taxes stay more or less where they are, regulation is more or less where it is, military spending is constantly increased and social spending is constantly cut.

Cortez wants to transition to a "peace economy" where we don't constantly increase spending on pointless wars, and we look at effective ways of helping people rather than "regulation". This is all very radical stuff in our public discourse.

welcome to #walkaway

[Wonkie]

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[JurisDictum]

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• Democrats want to increase taxes way more than just 1-3%
  
• Increasing regulation is not "right wing"
  
• I've never heard a Democrat endorse increasing military spending
  
• A Democrat supporting cutting social programs would be akin to a Conservative supporting gun control

I can agree that both parties eat, sleep, and drink corporate cronyism, but that doesn't automatically mean they now support all Conservative policies.

One is slightly more rightwing then the other. But if the status quo is rightwing and I say "we need to slightly increase taxes" -- that doesn't suddenly mean we land on the left end of the spectrum.

The only reason we are allowed to increase taxes at all, is because:

1) People like Bezos don't really pay them anyway. Just the upper middle class. Most of the upper class just keep their money in off-shore accounts and waits for a "tax holiday" they force out of the government every 4-5 years.

2) They will just be cut again anyway by the Republicans in a few years.

The tax increases are still leave most taxes well under what people are taxed in other advanced industrial economies, and thus, still relatively rightwing.

By fiddling with the tax policy by these few percentage points, Obama was called a communist in our public discourse. It was very pervasive and something like 63% of Republicans said Obama was socialist in year 2000.

[Wonkie]

Originally Posted by DinoTriz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Death > 20 Days at a Summer Camp"

- Leftists

"absurdtism"

- Absurdtist

[mickmoranis]

new theory:

libs want to accept all the refugees because they know their political candidates that they elected to end the wars, just doubled the length and death counts of them!

[mickmoranis]

lol this is great

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WARNING: This meme is so powerful it literally may cause permanent damage to a liberal

[JurisDictum]

A 59-year-old woman was attending an unidentified protest Saturday when a man in his early 20s grabbed her hat and sunglasses, police said.

The woman attempted to fight him off by deploying her pepper spray, but the tables turned when the suspect grabbed the pepper spray out of her hands and sprayed her back, police said.

[skarlorn]

brock obama would be a good pokemon master