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Essay:Best New Conservative Words

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1800s reasserts its lead over 1700s with "straw man"
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|a variation on "tax-and-spend" (see below), "spend-and-tax" consists of spending the money first and then trying to justify raising taxes based on the deficit created by the spending
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|straw man
|1896
|an imaginary argument or example set up for the purpose of easily knocking down, while distracting from valid arguments
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|tax-and-spend
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|1800s
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|1900s
|cf. mulish. This refusal is what promoted the [[Parable of the Good Samaritan]].
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|slippery slope
|term has been widely used for decades to expose the fallacy of "it doesn't hurt to try"
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|[[term limits]]
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