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Originally Posted by ironweed
That's because Republicans can't use the word "stimulus" in anything other than a perjorative sense anymore - the memo is out. Years ago when everyone was getting their $100 checks in the mail from Smilin' George it was touted by all and sundry as a means to give tax money back to the ordinary folks who would certainly invest it more wisely than gubermint ever could, by going out and buying stuff (if you were a little guy like me - I think I spent it on drugs) or creating jobs if you were a big swinging dick like Hank, suddenly freed from a repressive tax burden to go forth and make a thousand flowers of employment bloom. So it was designed to promote consumer spending on the one hand and job creation on the other. But this is not "stimulus" -- oh no no no -- "stimulus" is what Democrats do when they are trying to make this country more like socialist wherever.
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Well, *that* one was branded as stimulus at the time.
The $1T+ tax cut was not--the economy needed no stimulus, the government had surpluses as far as the eye could see, and it was one more strategy to "starve the beast" and return to 'murricans, what was rightfully theirs.
Sure, the messaging moved around a lot, but Stimulus wasn't the original sell, so judging it on how stimulative it was isn't the right test. And the result provides plenty of fodder for insult on direct bases.
