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This is not a small thing: Starve the beast is emphatically a right-wing tactic, and well known one at that. To call it ideologically neutral w/r/t government i
by mapgrep 10y ago
This is not a small thing: Starve the beast is emphatically a right-wing tactic, and well known one at that. To call it ideologically neutral w/r/t government is blatantly wrong.
Whether it's technically neoconservative or not is a red herring. (Neoconservative being just one subset of the overall conservative movement.)
- tptacek 10y agoStarve-the-beast is certainly a conservative strategy! RIF through attrition, though, is a general management technique. "Starve the beast" refers to cutting government revenue to force tougher decisions about which departments to reduce or eliminate. I agree, like I said, it's just a nit.
- mapgrep 10y agoFair distinction!