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DU_ONE Donating Member (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 02:21 AM
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The Starve-the-beast Doctrine - Nyt Op-ed
Edited on Sat Mar-05-05 02:33 AM by DU_ONE
March 4, 2005
OP-ED COLUMNIST

Deficits and Deceit
By PAUL KRUGMAN

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According to starve-the-beast doctrine, right-wing politicians can use the big deficits generated by tax cuts as an excuse to slash social insurance programs. Mr. Bush's advisers thought that it would prove especially easy to sell benefit cuts in the context of Social Security privatization because the president could pretend that a plan that sharply cut benefits would actually be good for workers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/opinion/04krugman.html?pagewanted=print&position=
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 02:30 AM
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1. OK
Post how benefits would be reduced? Realizing the richest in our country had their taxes cut and throw in Christianity,
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 03:09 AM
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2. Really.
I'll await that response w/you Erika.
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Robert Oak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 03:33 AM
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3. Grover Norquist ----- know thy enemy, he is them
That is in their agenda plan. It's a way to privatize the nation...
i.e. destroy the nation state.
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