# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8986
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8986 "2013-03-18T07:49:38Z")
May I hijack this thread to pose a question? (I almost posted it in a non-BBQ thread, but didn’t want to risk a Moderator warning.) > [@Question for the advocates of "tough medicine"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-the-advocates-of-tough-medicine/653094/19): > > You compare a subsidy, which is money extorted from many people and given to a few, with a tax deduction, which allows someone to keep money they earned in the first place. > > The answer to your question is simple. Some people are hypocrites and some are not. Baboons understood the need for coercive taxation as early as the time Oog-oog told his nephew to share his banana. There was a recent thread on post-Neolithic shrinking of human brain size. Has this been related to political trends? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897)._