# Will The Republicans ever figure out why they lost? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 26, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-republicans-ever-figure-out-why-they-lost/645224 "2012-12-26T21:33:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1773
**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:** [July 26, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-republicans-ever-figure-out-why-they-lost/645224/1773 "2013-07-26T17:35:27Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > ok thanks for pointing out the obvious. In any case, what you have is a net transfer of resources from taxpayers not using the free stuff to taxpayers recieving more than what they paid in taxes for the free stuff. There is no way around this. Mr. Farnaby would have only Food Stamp recipients pay the taxes needed for Food Stamps. Only families with a student receiving a Federal Pell Grant should be taxed for that, and so on. BTW, Mr. Farnaby, I don’t want to talk about you “behind your back” so will mention that I criticize your views in another thread, with the note: “Example 1) **WillFarnaby** : Smallpox is better than fiber optic cables.” > [@Hyper-Libertarians Say the Darndest Things](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyper-libertarians-say-the-darndest-things/664032/6): > > … If you draw a line connecting the trough of the Bush-41 recession to the trough of the Bush-43 recession, you’ll find the Clinton boom was huge _even with the bust in the early Bush-43 years factored in_. Or, to paraphrase Alan Greenspan, “It is better to have boomed and busted than never to have boomed at all.” For this reason, I think Farnaby’s contention that the slight over-investment in 1999 is reason to abolish the FRB and let money creation and bank regulation be completely privatised _while condemning the practice of mandatory vaccinations which give only trivial “irrelevant” benefits like the eradication of smallpox_ certainly qualifies Farnaby as Hyper-_Something_, even if the Pro-Casino Libertarians disown him. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-republicans-ever-figure-out-why-they-lost/645224)._