This isn't necessarily directed at anyone here, but it's pretty funny when I hear my liberal pals talk about how expensive it will be to build the wall, and then also mention how they support universal healthcare, expansion of social security, and free college tuition.
Kinda like when conservatives walk around acting like they have a monopoly on fiscal responsibility and then blow enough money parading around Iraq to pay for free college tuition for 75+ years. Or when they simultaneously cut taxes on the wealthy which exacerbates the huge hole they put in the debt with the aforementioned Iraq War.
Or when they pass Medicare Part D to buy votes in Florida for 2004 and don't pay for that.
If I didn't know any better I'd say a big difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals actually suggest ways to pay for it.
The argument put forth by those filthy money-spending liberals is to approach health care like our other anglosphere brethren who raise taxes and then
magically lower the health care costs:
The expansion of social security is to be paid for by lifting the cap on social security taxes and other modifications. It's not going to explode the deficit because liberals actually propose a way to pay for it.
Free public tuition, a policy I'm not on board with, is to be paid for by a Wall Street financial tax, and their argument is that the disposable income being put into the economy by young people would offset any damage a mere .01% tax on stock transactions would cause.
I'm not saying they're right, I'm saying by and large when liberals increase the size of government they aren't afraid of finding that money, and that's an enormous difference between the Democrats and Republicans of the last 36 years. Add that to the other huge difference, that Democrats tend to spend domestically and Republicans looooove to waste money overseas, and it's paying for stuff we use domestically or not paying for the things we use abroad.
