• solsangraal@lemmy.zipOP
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    3 months ago

    honestly i don’t even know what the republican “ideal” is anymore, since it seems to me to be nothing more than “do whatever the 1% wants” for the last 20+ years

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      3 months ago

      Some of the ideals they claimed to follow weren’t necessarily bad. Fiscal conservatism isn’t inherently a bad thing, the problem is that Republicans were highly selective about when they cared about it.

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        3 months ago

        Fiscal conservatism should have never been conflated with severe austerity. Starve the government is a bad plan, thanks so much Grover Norquist 😤

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          3 months ago

          Completely agree.

          Balanced budget, working away the debt, making sure you don’t run a deficit? All totally sensible. But you do that by making the government more efficient and raising tax revenue, not slashing funding willy nilly