The 40 Iron Laws of Politics in America

Townhall.com ^ | February 4, 2018 | John Hawkins

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The only Iron Law we need to know, and why Republicans are not much different than Democrats...

Iron Law of Oligarchy

[central_va]

Cutting taxes increases revenue so you can’t really say that.

[Thom Pain]

Excellent List!

May I suggest:

20) The goal of the mainstream media is not to report the news; it's to further liberalism while reporting pretending to report the news.

[Theoria]

Absurd. The gop is not concerned with the debt. There aren't cuts. It's obvious that the dems don't care, but this idea that we are gonna out grow government without cutting is rainbows and fairy tales.

Cutting taxes, without making cuts isn't enough. Insane.

[EEGator]

Thanks for the link. I hadn’t ever heard of that law.

[reed13k]

42. The reason the government control of the military works so well is that the purpose of the military is to destroy. In the military’s case it is to destroy the enemy of the country. Destruction is the only the the government does well.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

While they are in ^{At least until after his successor’s next Republican successor is in office,} office, all ^every Republican Presidents will be portrayed by the Left as either evil, crazy, racist, stupid or some combination thereof.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

2) That person in politics being compared to Hitler ^{No American conservative} is really not very much like Hitler at all.

Hitler was a socialist, and

. . . observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under 'communism' and 'fascism'. As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939,

'the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.’

No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom. ____________— F A Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (May, 1945 Reader’s Digest Condensed Version)

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

24) There will always be poor Americans.

Democrats will see to that.

[narses]

Title documents.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

36) Conservatives spend an inordinate amount of time trying to explain what ^that they really want to do to ^{what they say they want to do for} the general public while liberals spend an inordinate amount of time trying to hide what they really want to do from the general public ^{and claiming that Republicans’ plain speech is a “dog whistle” which only (imaginary) racists will understand} .

[SunkenCiv]

30) In politics, there will always be people who hate you for no good reason.

Corollary A:

30a) In politics, it is always a good idea to screw and then marginalize those who hate you for no good reason.

[central_va]

Cutting taxes, without making cuts isn't enough. Insane.

I didn't say not cutting spending was a good thing. Of course spending cuts would be good. But that has nothing to do with taxes. Cutting taxes increases revenue. You should be in favor of them Always. I have explained to you many times to you and showed you data that confirms that every major tax rate reduction has increased government revenue. But you are a hard ignorant headed mule who knows nothing about economics or history and refuses to learn.

[Theoria]

'You should be in favor of them Always. I have explained to you many times to you and showed you data that confirms that every major tax rate reduction has increased government revenue.'

That matters not when gov spends more then it takes in. Yet, you still push that stupid line.

[central_va]

Tell me why increased government revenue doesn’t matter. What inanity. Are you well?

[central_va]

Tell me why, as a working man, shouldn’t I get a tax break which will increase my take home pay? Money that will help me take care of my family? Why should tax cuts be tied to spending cuts? The answer is they shouldn’t.

I am just as big a deficit hawk as you but tax cuts don’t hurt anything, they help everyone, the economy and shrink the deficit..

[Theoria]

I'm in favor of tax cuts. And reducing .gov. So tell me why we should continue having deficits that leads to higher debt.

Just last year, we had record tax revenue. But, it wasn't enough. We still spend more than we took in.

We have to make the cuts now to help the future. If we don't tackle the debt now, simple idea of interest on the debt will defeat the point of tax cuts.

Why are you in favor of more debt that will destroy your family? Tax cuts aren't enough to offset the upcoming debt and pains. I recall the national debt being a huge factor in fighting against Obama. Now, it seems that it insert a problem anymore.

[central_va]

So tell me why we should continue having deficits that leads to higher debt.

We shouldn't be increasing the debt that is why we need tax cuts.