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Re:U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice by username223 on Monday February 05, 2018 @12:47PM (#16310474)
> "Government is like a baby..."

... so let's starve it to death, because that's what you normally do with babies. I always knew that Reagan was a dementia victim, but not that he was so bad at metaphors.

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Re:U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice by jacobolus on Monday February 05, 2018 @12:55PM (#16310543)
The whole “starve it until it can be drowned in a bathtub” thing is from Grover Norquist, whose anti-tax pledge has been signed by almost all Republican lawmakers for decades.

Norquist was a Reaganite though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan,_Abramoff,_Norquis...

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