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		drewcoo on Aug 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The post-neoliberalism moment In the US the last President to try to give us all free health care was Nixon. Early on, Nixon made his name rooting out communists in America with HUAC. How times have changed.

red-iron-pine on Aug 8, 2024 [–]

even tried to implement a negative income tax until that got torpedoed by his advisors.

also set up the EPA.

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