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Huh. TIL. Well some pie in the face for me here. Though these have become DEM interests over the years despite the source of their original passage.
by harryh 7y ago
Huh. TIL. Well some pie in the face for me here. Though these have become DEM interests over the years despite the source of their original passage.
- klipt 7y agoI guess it shows that the GOP of today would oppose many policies of the GOP of yesterday as too liberal. Eg Obamacare was originally conceived by a conservative think-tank: https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-conservative-think-tank-invented-the-individual-mandate/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-...
- ineedasername 7y agoYou talk of entitlements and welfare. The political party difference isn't in whether those should exist, it's in which people or entities should receive them, and what form they take.
- tptacek 7y agoThe EITC remains bipartisan, and fits the "distribute cash not services" regulatory ethos of the Republican party.