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> A classic tactic is to underfund a thing you don't like, then point to it failing as an excuse for killing it outright. I've seen this assertion made online

• toomuchtodo 8y ago
  The most recent, high profile example would be conservatives handing out egregious tax cuts which are going to be used to balloon the federal deficit and argue that Social Security and Medicare will need to be cut "because they can't be paid for". https://www.google.com/search?q=conservatives+starving+government https://www.google.com/search?q=conservatives+starving+gover... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
• _jal 8y ago
  There is a currently-running attempt to do just this with the ACA. Various politicians keep ranting about how it is failing, and have made various changes attempting to speed that alleged failure along, and yet it stubbornly keeps working, more or less, and increasing in popularity.
  • geggam 8y ago
    A poor choice is better than no choice.
• mturmon 8y ago
  The US Postal Service. Free public education. Obamacare. Easy voting. Social Security.
  • craftyguy 8y ago
    And let's not forget the most recent addition to the party, the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
• enraged_camel 8y ago
  >>I've seen this assertion made online a few times, but have never seen any actual examples. You don't need examples when you can hear it straight out of the horse's mouth: "I'm not in favor of abolishing the government. I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." -Grover Norquist, founder and president of conservative anti-tax organization Americans for Tax Reform