Supply-Side Economics

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Originally Posted by finnbow

Unlike Whell, I don't like being blatantly lied to and manipulated and I sure as hell don't try to get others to believe the lies in order to assuage my own conscience about having been misled.

Uh huh. Where were you on the "if you like your health plan you can keep it", or "if you like your doctor you can keep him/her"? Or maybe "the $400 million in cash to Iran isn't a ransom"? Or Kerry's comments that they'd probably be used to fund terrorism as almost an afterthought? Or Obama saying in 2011 that “We signed into law the biggest middle-class tax cut in history”? Or Obama saying: “The day after Benghazi happened, I acknowledged that it was an act of terrorism”? Or Obama's claim that “The Keystone pipeline is for oil that bypasses the United States”?

Trump pedals a lot of BS, and the old joke about "you can tell a politician is lying when their lips are moving" easily attaches to him. Generally, however, Trump stays the course of his core campaign pledges (the budget deficit is a notable exception). Other politicians - like Obama's lies - are often tools used to hide the implementation of their agendas. That's a pretty significant difference IMHO.