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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by kergonath on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:48AM (#28771058)
That’s surprising only if you consider the Tories as being economically liberal. They are conservative in the sense that they look after the interests of the old aristocracy and a coalition of the rich. Their policies are intended to benefit a specific subset of the population. Their taxes (as well as things like the universal credit cuts) are perfectly aligned with that ideology.

They don’t have a problem with the concept of taxation, just taxation of the powerful.

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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by slibhb on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:55AM (#28773240)
No it's surprising because austerity was the Tory platform until Boris Johnson.
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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by Brakenshire on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:25AM (#28771324)
They increased UC for the pandemic, and then reduced it, much like the Furlough scheme, and both of those policies would have been considered centre or centre-left responses if done by a centre or centre-left party.
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Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:28AM (#28772304)
> They are conservative in the sense that they look after the interests of the old aristocracy and a coalition of the rich.

I thought this was the literal definition of right wing? The side that supported the king against the democratic will of the people?

And is there anyone who has a rhetoric of "less taxes" who actually intends everyone to benefit? That seems like a mirage and it's all done in service of the rich and powerful.

Which is a hard policy to sell to ordinary people, unless you wrap it in some cheap bigotry to confuse them.

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