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shockey80

(4,379 posts)
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 01:56 PM Nov 2019

The great Republican lie. They want it both ways.

On one hand, Most Republicans do not want or like to be labeled racists. On the other hand they all believe America is a white Anglo-Saxon nation that should be led by white Anglo-Saxon's.

Republican's, on most issue's, are hypocrites. Their party is and always has been a lie.

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The great Republican lie. They want it both ways. (Original Post) shockey80 Nov 2019 OP
Fiscal conservancy, family values RainCaster Nov 2019 #1
two santa clause theory too. NRaleighLiberal Nov 2019 #2

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)
2. two santa clause theory too.
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 02:02 PM
Nov 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Wanniski

The Two Santa Claus Theory is a political theory and strategy published by Wanniski in 1976, which he promoted within the United States Republican Party.[14][15] The theory states that in democratic elections, if Democrats appeal to voters by proposing programs to help people, then the Republicans cannot gain broader appeal by proposing less spending. The first "Santa Claus" of the theory title refers to the Democrats who promise programs to help the disadvantaged. The "Two Santa Claus Theory" recommends that the Republicans must assume the role of a second Santa Claus by not arguing to cut spending but offering the option of cutting taxes.[citation needed]

According to Wanniski, the theory is simple. In 1976, he wrote that the Two-Santa Claus Theory suggests that "the Republicans should concentrate on tax-rate reduction. As they succeed in expanding incentives to produce, they will move the economy back to full employment and thereby reduce social pressures for public spending. Just as an increase in Government spending inevitably means taxes must be raised, a cut in tax rates—by expanding the private sector—will diminish the relative size of the public sector."[15] Wanniski suggested this position, as Thom Hartmann has clarified, so that the Democrats would "have to be anti-Santas by raising taxes, or anti-Santas by cutting spending. Either one would lose them elections."[16]
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