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the race to the right continues for US Republicans

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[–] Domiku@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago
  • Step 1: defund government agencies
  • Step 2: point to “how poorly the government runs”
  • Step 3: campaign on the platform that big government is bad
  • Step 4: repeat until the world is a fireball
[–] SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does he even know what Energy does or is he add ignorant as Rick Perry?

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this almost certainly falls into a weird middle ground of "virtue signal that even he knows is not realistic, but which also speaks to the legitimate opinion of many Republican voters and elites probably including himself". DeSantis is many things--but ignorant is not one of them.

[–] SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Oh he's definitely in the virtue signaling end of his business. He keeps pushing laws that he knows damn well are unconstitutional but they sure rile the base.

[–] fizgigtiznalkie@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So without the IRS why would anyone pay taxes and then how would the country continue to exist?

[–] reric88@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

He would probably just pull a Comcast and rename the IRS to something catchier but more invasive to the lesser communities

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Have you read any of the Shadowrun series of books where everything is controlled by mega corporations with their own private armies and pseudo slavery?

Yea... That.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the IRS gets eliminated the US is gone. Probably the Dept of Commerce and Energy too. And Education would be only a matter of time.

[–] specwill@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@angstylittlecatboy @alyaza it's bizarre how the tax dodgers don't seem to understand the connection between taxes and the value of money.

[–] ConsciousCode@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

"Tragedy of the commons" + "diffusion of responsibility" + extreme individualism + right-libertarianism "taxation is theft"

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, free money for people who vote for DeSantis.

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