• @Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    5910 months ago

    Reaganomics was a horrendous failure for this country, and nearly 50 years later here we are with Republicans pushing those policies again on the American people.

    What DeSatan is talking about is a continuation of Reagan’s terrible “Starve the Beast” policies.

    Starve the Beast is a plan by conservatives to reduce funding for various government departments and programs to a level below which those entities can function properly. Salaries and equipment cost money. Below a certain level, you can’t do your job properly. And that’s what Republicans have been pushing for a few decades now. Cut funding for programs, and then claim those same programs aren’t doing their job properly, and use that as the excuse to kill off those programs altogether.

    It is a self fulfilling prophecy all so big business and the ultra rich can pollute more, hide their real wealth from taxes, and make our children dumb enough that future generations willingly vote Republican.