This simply is historically false. It totally distorts what moderate has meant. As a former moderate Republican congressman told me in response to this claim, “John McCain was no more a moderate than I am a socialist.”https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1108917289737424898 …
At the end of the day, conservatives care more about the total share of society consumed by government than about the percentage of that share that is collected in current vs future taxes.
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Right. And my point is Dole agreed with them. But tactically, he understood Tip O’Neill wasn’t going to allow votes on massive spending cuts. So he did the responsible thing. Which is more than anyone can say for modern conservatives who just keep slashing taxes & letting the
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Deficit skyrocket. They refuse to acknowledge that the public wants no part of massive spending cuts & so irresponsibly keep raising defense spending & cutting taxes & making the problem worse.
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That’s not even it. Conservatives care about cutting taxes on the rich and cutting social transfer programs for those who don’t vote for them; but support for those who do (wealthy farmers). The pentagon is also government spending and conservatives don’t wish to cut there.
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