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  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington commented…1mo1MO

A truly Keynesian approach would actually be *MORE* conservative than what we have now – John Maynard Keynes was by today's standards a moderate conservative, and in his works advocating for shrinking the government debt by cutting spending on unnecessary things, though he did support the Public Works Jobs Creation Fallacy and other economic absurdities. Keynesian Economics, Monetarist Economics, and Marxist Economics have all been tried and found lacking. The only thing that we've never tried is Austrian Economics, which can account for every depression and recession in Ameri…  Read more

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia disagreed…2 days2D

Keynes himself was a socialist, his economic views are not nearly as conservative as one may think, he merely advocated for heavier efficiency of these services via cutting what is clearly unnecessary, as I agree to as well, though liberals usually try to excuse the cost issues as money is no object to them. The axis of Keynesian vs laissez-faire is more of a measure of intervention rather than the actual economic ideals of these two, as neither are necessarily counter to one another. The economics of Marxism are not a static set, they’re a collection of economic principles in a vague…  Read more

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