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Re:Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater... by BobbyJo on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:50PM (#27227826)
I also don't see a push from republicans to repeal social security. That doesn't mean it isn't a socialist policy.
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Re:Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater... by DFHippie on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:14PM (#27228090)
Here:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-the-2005-social-secur...

It wasn't sold as a push to repeal Social Security, because that polls extremely badly, but that's what it was.

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Re:Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater... by rmah on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:33PM (#27228275)
Repealing social security has been a wink-wink, nudge-nudge part of the unspoken Republican platform since social security was created.
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Re:Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater... by ABeeSea on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:56PM (#27227915)
Are you saying EMTALA (people not left to die on the street) is socialism? I don’t think that meets the definition of socialism.
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Re:Five Oregon counties vote to leave state, create 'Greater... by BobbyJo on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:53PM (#27228454)
No, I'm saying something being supported (or at least not repealed) by republicans doesn't make it ideologically right wing. Republicans, like democrats, have a wide variety of beliefs in their platforms, both right and left.
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