{"id":5049,"date":"2009-10-09T10:46:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T08:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/09\/this-is-what-conservatives-really-think\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T08:46:45","slug":"this-is-what-conservatives-really-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/09\/this-is-what-conservatives-really-think\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what conservatives really think"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched a couple of videos by Dan Mitchell this morning. They’re here<\/a> and here<\/a> for those who really want to share the experience.<\/p>\n

Dan hates big government.<\/p>\n

Cameron made it his theme yesterday.<\/p>\n

So let’s paraphrase Mitchell who said:<\/p>\n

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George W Bush made the massive mistake of thinking when someone was hurting it was the government's responsibility to help<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Then there’s historical revisionism:<\/p>\n

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Under Hoover and Roosevelt we got big government spending. This cause twelve years of economic downturn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So he ignores the recession that preceded this and the enormous success of Roosevelt in tackling it.<\/p>\n

And the twelve years of economic downturn post 1933? Might they include the second world war, maybe?<\/p>\n

But what after that? Apparently we got a forty year economic disaster after 1933 because of big government.<\/p>\n

So let’s examine some facts. From 1950 to 1973 there were no recessions. Not one. From 1980 to date (when neo-liberalism has reigned) there have been five. The 1950s and 1960 were the American dream years. Here people “had never had it so good”. But anti-government fanatics \u2014 conservatives to their core \u2014 now say this was a disastrous time.<\/p>\n

So they hate economic growth created by government creating the right environment in which it can happen and they hate government helping people.<\/p>\n

In fact, they just hate.<\/p>\n

It’s attractive, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched a couple of videos by Dan Mitchell this morning. They’re here and here for those who really want to share the experience. Dan
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