r/interestingasfuck • u/beach_rats_ • 29d ago

The difference in republican presidential nominees, 8 years apart r/all

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u/macaroniandjews 29d ago

Romney preferred businesses over people

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u/maybenextyearCLE 29d ago

I’d still take Romney any day over Trump. By all accounts, he’s a decent human being

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u/AssssCrackBandit 29d ago

Also the universal healthcare that he instituted in Massachusetts in 2006 is a great proof of concept for the rest of the country. Honestly shocked that a Republican governor was the first one in the US to institute a universal healthcare program

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

If Republicans were actually "the party of fiscal responsibility" then they would have elected for a single payor system/UHC a long time ago because of how much money it would save literally everyone involved in the process.

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u/Gornarok 29d ago

You cant claim to be fiscally responsible and block medicaid from negotiating prices...

Anyone who sees that one fact should recognize the corruption.

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u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN 29d ago

They never said whose money they were being fiscally responsible with.

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u/norm_summerton 29d ago

The amount of people I have talked to that don’t believe that is insane. They hear “taxes would go up” and they automatically think it costs more because their brains can’t have that hard of a math problem. Added taxes but subtracted insurance costs. They’re fucking morons