Submitted 9 months ago by Amoxtli@thelemmy.club to conservative@lemm.ee
Remember back in the day, George H.W. Bush was running for the GOP nomination against Ronald Reagan. Bush called Reagan’s tax cut plan ‘voo-doo economics.’ After Reagan won the nomination Bush was happy to abandon reality for the Veep slot.
Also, wage and price controls have been used in the past.
Also, wage and price controls have been used in the past.
The only time price controls have been shown to work is in the face of monopolies. The rest of the time they have caused problems.
They ‘worked’ during WW2 but that is an extreme case. That is how we ended up with our insurance working the way it does.
I wish we could get everyone who is economically illiterate out of the government, but unfortunately religious nutjobs and bigots keep voting more of them in.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Of course a conservative site is going to have a pro-tax stance when it is anti-labor, regardless of it also being pushed by conservatives.
Because Harris said it, it’s bad? The mental gymnastics of this is amazing.
Given the volume of trash that OP posts and it purely being Democrat-bad, I am fairly convinced it is a foreign actor. We should have seen articles about how Cruz introduced the No Tax on Tips Act, but no. We get this instead.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Happy cake day.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Oh, it’s the other propaganda fiend.