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For years, Republicans have been selling themselves as the party of business, using Small Business as the banner from which to launch their tax cuts for huge corporations. In Joe the Plumber, they epitomized this tactic; Using the sometimes less than accurate "Joe the Plumber" — who wasn't a licensed plumber and didn't, in fact, pay all of those taxes he moaned about on TV — to prop up the agenda for Big Business.
The Party of No Sabotages Small Business
Seeded on Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:38 PM EDT
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While the actions of the Republican Party are those of a Party whose ideology has been bastardized beyond recognition until it is being used to justify some sort of social Darwinistic “Christian” jihad on humanity justified by the “Jesus-blessed” “free market” “winners”, this reality has been slow to dim on the heartland.
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#1 - Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:40 PM EDTIt's a strange change, isn't it? The Whig party of Lincoln was a great promoter of public projects like dredging rivers and building canals. During the Civil War the Republicans (though most of the money went to create a wealthy class) promoted a trans-continental railway. Eisenhower promoted the interstate highway system and seemed comfortable with a 70% marginal tax rate on the wealthiest Americans. "I'm a taxpayer and a Republican" (which is sprinkled throughout Hallelujah Trail) were words you could hear from almost any small business owner for a century. Then Reagan came in with the screwball concept of "trickle down" economics and the whole country went to hell.
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