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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Tue Nov 28, 2017, 05:42 PM Nov 2017

GOP Tax Plan Meant To Leave Only Money For Just Military. All Else Must Go.

The GOP goal has been all along to leave only enough money for military and national security. Beyond that all other function will have to go to the states. That would mean they have at the military and police to control the population while they rule with impunity.

It has been the conservative meme for decades.

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GOP Tax Plan Meant To Leave Only Money For Just Military. All Else Must Go. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Nov 2017 OP

It's what they proposed when Obama came into office. DetlefK Nov 2017 #1

I am gonna give up for a while and watch "The Wire" Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #2

And the court system. The military and the courts, that is what the "originalists" believe AJT Nov 2017 #3

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

1. It's what they proposed when Obama came into office.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Tue Nov 28, 2017, 05:45 PM

Nov 2017

They asked him to freeze ALL government-spending except the military. And then they were outraged when the President of the United States didn't do what they asked him to do.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)

2. I am gonna give up for a while and watch "The Wire"

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Tue Nov 28, 2017, 05:56 PM

Nov 2017

Never saw it, hear it is gripping and amazing.

AJT

(5,240 posts)

3. And the court system. The military and the courts, that is what the "originalists" believe