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Ted Cruz believes JFK ‘would be a Republican today’
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 02, 2015 12:56pm |
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| Author | Steve Benen |
| Media | TV News - National Broadcasting Company MSNBC News |
| News Date | Tuesday, June 2, 2015 03:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | I would point out that in the 1960s, one of the most powerful, eloquent defenders of tax cuts was John F. Kennedy. As JFK said, ‘Some men see things as they are and ask why; I see things that never were and ask why not.’
“JFK would be a Republican today. There is no room for John F. Kennedy in the modern Democratic Party.”
Ooh, boy.
We can quickly dispense with some of the minor details. The “some men see things as they are” quote, for example, originated with George Bernard Shaw, not the Kennedys. What’s more, it had absolutely nothing to do with tax cuts.
For that matter, the notion that contemporary Democrats are reflexively hostile to tax breaks isn’t true – President Obama’s Recovery Act included hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts, and it enjoyed overwhelming Democratic support. Indeed, by some measures, it was among the largest middle-class tax breaks in modern American history.
But that’s not the important part. Rather, what matters here is the ongoing Republican confusion about Kennedy’s tax cuts from the early 1960s. |
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