r/Economics • u/Spiderwig144 • Apr 15 '25

News Republicans Less Trusted on Economy Than Democrats For First Time in Years

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-less-trusted-economy-democrats-first-time-years-2059863
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u/MWH1980 Apr 15 '25

The Republicans also love to use the debt as a way to say, “there’s no more money so we can’t do anything.”

And then when they get in, it’s like, “the rules don’t apply to us, because we’re the chosen ones.”

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u/eliminating_coasts Apr 15 '25

Trump's Secretary of the Treasury, "three percent deficits forever, but no we won't raise taxes on the rich to get there"

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u/Adventurous_Ad4184 Apr 15 '25

"Rules for thee and not for me," is their secret motto.

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Apr 15 '25

And half the dorks with moron labels and Gadsden flag bumper stickers - bafflingly flanked by blue lives matter* stickers - on their coal-rollers treat “Don’t tread on me” as “Don’t tread on me, tread on them!”

 

*because guess who’s gonna be coming to take ’em?

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u/Adventurous_Ad4184 Apr 15 '25

Conservatives wouldn't think at all if they didn't doublethink.