(1) The voters want fewer taxes and more spending.
(2) Citizens want honest politicians until they want something fixed.
(3) Constituency drives out consistency (i.e., liberals defend
military spending, and conservatives social spending in their own districts).
-- Hall's Laws of Politics
(2) Citizens want honest politicians until they want something fixed.
(3) Constituency drives out consistency (i.e., liberals defend
military spending, and conservatives social spending in their own districts).
-- Hall's Laws of Politics
Related:
- Hall's Laws of Politics:
(1) The voters want fewer taxes and more spending.
(2) Citizens want honest politicians until they want... - Liberal's Investment:
more taxes and more spending... - I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending
their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to
buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
Emile Henry... - Spending programs are now 'investments,' taxes are 'contributions,' and
these are the same people who say _I_ need a dictionary?"
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Dan Quayle... - Conservatives want to make people virtuous; liberals want to make
them healthy.
Both believe that using the state to accomplish their...
From the same category:
- Expense Accounts, n.:
Corporate food stamps... - PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and
devour it.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory
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Georges... - Old schools never die,
they just lose their principals... - After all, all he did was string together
a lot of old,
well-known quotations. -- H.L. Mencken, on...
