She increased taxes-She supported socialized medicine-She believed in climate change & gun control
Why The Modern Republican Party Would Reject Margaret ThatcherShe supported socialized medicine. The modern-day GOP is so obsessed with trying to repeal Obamacare that they’ve held nearly 40 votes to do so. But Obamacare is actually a much more conservative health care policy than the socialized National Health Service, which Thatcher lauded as an accomplishment of the United Kingdom. “I believed that the NHS was a service of which we could genuinely be proud,” she wrote in her book, “It delivered a high quality of care — especially when it came to acute illnesses — and at a reasonably modest unit cost, at least compared with some insurance-based systems.”
She increased taxes. Spending actually rose during Thatcher’s first seven years in office, as the New York Times reports, and taxes took up a larger percentage as share of gross domestic product. Indeed, even by the end of her time in office taxes were still a higher percentage of GDP than they were when she arrived:
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She believed in climate change. Thatcher was an early adherent to climate science, and once warned, “The danger of global warming is as yet unseen but real enough for us to make changes and sacrifices so that we do not live at the expense of future generations.”
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She recognized that gun laws can limit gun violence. After a deadly shooting rampage in England, Thatcher said, “If [gun laws] need to be tightened up, or if we think that it could prevent anything more like this, then of course that will be considered.” A year later, the government passed the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988, which outlawed semi-automatic weapons, changed requirements on registering guns, allowed police to refuse a weapon to anyone they saw unfit, and allowed the Home Secretary to add other guns to the list of banned firearms.
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DUers, please do not think for one moment that I supported Mrs. Thatcher...
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Why The Modern Republican Party Would Reject Margaret Thatcher
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She is already in place as a saint with reagan to the repugs of now
What the Tory government under Margaret Thatcher and then John Major did to the public sector has been followed by all the repugs here
The Modern Republican Party folks all know her name and deeds -she is part of their histroy myth.
Sorry but get real- she is is one of the idols for them- a trailblazer
Thatcher’s government embarked upon a war against working-class rights and living standards. Prevailing expectations about the need for a welfare state, trade union rights, publicly owned industry and services, social housing etc, were battered down with a philosophy, which promoted individualism, privatisation and free market economics.“There is no such thing as ’society’” she said
Please do not paint her as psuedo progressive now
They were both psychopaths beholden to and controlled by multinational interests that destroyed lives, and whose policies continue to do so. They were populists who made transparent appeals to the masses and fucked them at pretty much every turn. The idea that they could not be elected now by their conservative synchophants holds no water IMHO. Didn't vote that way then, and I would piss on their grave now if I had the chance.
Their legacy is firm with me, and it ain't a good one.
It probably was just the Laffer curve 
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/53
