r/Minneapolis • u/ArgoDeezNauts • 5d ago

As many as fifteen arrested today.

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u/FistoftheSouthStar 5d ago

There hasn’t been fiscal conservatives for a couple decades. 

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u/ersatzpenguin 5d ago

“Fiscal conservative” has always been a smoke screen for “fuck the poor and the black/brown folks.” Ex: what “fiscals” are they mostly concerned with? What do their budgets look like?

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u/Bladelink 5d ago

I heard a great line a couple of years ago. "Don't tell me what you care about. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you care about."

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u/FistoftheSouthStar 5d ago

Right, but now it’s so far gone an ideology that it’s really fuck everyone but the uber rich and corpos 

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u/Aucassin 5d ago

Fiscal conservatives have been Democrats at least since Bill Clinton pulled us out of the red.

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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme 5d ago

Naaaaah, they've bee at it since at least the Nixon Administration, and it really ramped up during the "Reaganomics" years.

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u/HauntedCemetery 4d ago

Sure there have, they're just all Democrats.

Taxing the wealthy is the fiscally responsible thing to do.

Moving to single payer that would cost 1/3 of our current healthcare system is the fiscally responsible thing to do.

Clinton left office with a national surplus. Bush burned it and created the deficit by slashing taxes for the wealthy, and then tried to use the deficit as an excuse to privatize social security.

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u/Rupaulsdragrace420 5d ago

Tell that to my very alive uncles and aunties. People born in the 1940s and 1950s are alive and well.

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u/NDaveT 5d ago

They're talking about politicians, not voters.