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[โ€“] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Or we could raise taxes on the rich and do the infrastructure rebuild that's been needed for decades.

There's a decade's worth of blue collar pick and shovel work needed.

[โ€“] Rooster326@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wait. A new deal you say? To get us out of our ~~great depression~~ stagflation?

If only we knew how that turned out historically. ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

According to folks on the Right, the New Deal's spending actually prolonged the Depression. It was only much vaster government spending for WW2 that ended the Depression.

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