• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The thing is real fiscal conservatism relies on evidence. They just want to sell off the government so they can make a profit replacing it. A real fiscal conservative would have already passed universal education, universal healthcare, universal background checks, taken military procurement to task, and repealed half of the laws restricting unions.

    The Republicans talk about laws that spend less and create more revenue, but they fight tooth and nail against ones that actually would do that.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      no no, republicans don’t want the govt to make revenue. tax cuts, ridiculously complicated tax code, gutting the IRS… all to let rich people keep as much money as possible.

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        5 hours ago

        Rich people making more money is true Republican goal and the reason for everything else. Co-opting the deranged fanatical Christian sector was just part of the strategy to achieve that.