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The Definition of Insanity: Deregulating Over and Over and Expecting Different Results | NationofChange

tartantambourine:

” … [W]e’ve be­come a bipo­lar na­tion, 1% manic and 99% de­pres­sive. Our af­flic­tion is caused by a 30-year ex­per­i­ment in the dis­mal eco­nom­ics of delu­sion. Dereg­u­la­tion for cor­po­ra­tions and tax cuts for the wealthy have de­fined con­ser­v­a­tive pol­icy since the 1970s, when Uni­ver­sity of Chicago econ­o­mist Arthur Laf­fer con­vinced Dick Ch­eney and other Re­pub­li­can of­fi­cials that low­er­ing taxes on the rich would gen­er­ate more rev­enue.”