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"Increase social service programs so that we address the reason why they're homeless and doing drugs in the first place."
"No, that's socialism and Fox News tells me I should be scared of that word!"
I don't want to pay for other peoples' healthcare so I'd rather pay a lot more for an oppressive police force that also takes away my civil rights.
While still paying for other people's healthcare because that's how insurance works.
Not to mention the societal costs that inevitably come from people being sick
The real "fiscal conservatives" are the "bleeding-heart liberals."
Turns out, productivity soars when you have a well rested, well compensated, well treated, healthy, and housed people who don't have constant stessors of literally every aspect of their lives nearly crumbling beneath them...
But then how are you supposed to subjugate them???
Guns.
Yeah but then how would the rich and powerful feel good about themselves?
Okay but if there's infrastructure then the idea of structural forces wont seem so alien to people, and they will be harder to oppress.
So maybe the crazy idea you just pulled out of your ass isnt quite so clever in the real world, hm?
That is incompatible with growing wealth disparity. And the rich will always try to get richer.
No, its the anarchists; libs still means test everything.
Edit: we're also for slashing government spending!