“Tax and spend liberals”

[MisterP]

8. and also "a rising tide lifts all boats"

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/12/the-education-of-david-stockman/305760/?single_page=true

the point, of course, is to get people and pols talking using the slogans: they're constructing an atmosphere, changing the terms of discourse

say "it's YOUR money" enough and now every proposal to tax the ridiculously wealthy first has to fight through waves of "it's UNFAIR," trying to make the liberals defend taxes as some sort of user fee (a football that the Pubs can then take and run with): it doesn't matter if 90% of the country wants the rich taxed out the wazoo if the (that's also how the NRA works--nobody pushes back against them, especially their own members)