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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 05:59 AM
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8. Not really.
Edited on Thu Jul-24-08 06:01 AM by yibbehobba
privatization of the public sector

Right. This never existed before Bush.

public subsidization of the private sector

Which happens in just about every country in the world, including all Western democracies, and once again existed before Bush. Public subsidies are not inherently fascist.

slashing of taxes on the wealthy and corporations

Which is indeed lame, but hardly fascism. Mussolini's government did cut taxes on foreign investment capital, luxuries, etc, but the cornerstone of his tax policy was actually the use of taxation as an incentive for child bearing. There were tax incentives for having children, and penalties for being single. Not that this mattered very much, as Italians during that time were very adept at avoiding taxation by the government.

DO NOT try to deny that Bush’s economic actions are indeed identical to those of the other two most notorious fascists ever known.

This is patent nonsense. First of all, fascism is not an economic system. There is no such thing as an agreed upon "fascist economic policy" as viewed by historians. Mussolini in particular was not very knowledgable about or interested in economic issues, and the economic policies of his regime were all over the place, primarily driven by a desire for political control rather than economic ideology. Mussolini both privatized and nationalized companies, and in most cases it was simply a matter of finding the most effective way of controlling a particular industry or company, and the best way of indoctrinating the employees into fascism. It was not a matter of economics.

I'm sure you know the old adage about Mussolini making the trains run on time. The problem with your position is that it implies that making the trains run on time is inherently fascist, which it isn't.

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