Dean Baker Stole My Thoughts

I've been trying to make a list of concrete examples of the right's obsession with calling its own tactics "free market," when in fact they are nothing but interventionist. As this blog and other ineteractive online comment-repositories have made clear in the past, Republicans don't understand their own arguments regarding the constitution of a free market. They seem to think that tax breaks = free market, and other sorts of nonsense. In short, conservatives who use the free market line either don't believe a word of it, or else they are just that stupid.

Anyway, Dean Baker beat me to it. Fuckwad.