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> "Government is like a baby..." ... so let's starve it to death, because that's what you normally do with babies. I always knew that Reagan was a dementia vi
by username223 9y ago
> "Government is like a baby..."
... so let's starve it to death, because that's what you normally do with babies. I always knew that Reagan was a dementia victim, but not that he was so bad at metaphors.
- jacobolus 9y agoThe whole “starve it until it can be drowned in a bathtub” thing is from Grover Norquist, whose anti-tax pledge has been signed by almost all Republican lawmakers for decades. Norquist was a Reaganite though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan,_Abramoff,_Norquist.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan,_Abramoff,_Norquis...