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Ronald Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for tax reductions in July 1981. "Starve the beast" is a political strategy employed by American conservatives to limit government spending [1] [2] [3] by cutting taxes, to deprive the federal government of revenue in a deliberate effort to force it to reduce spending.
Ulrich Horstmann (born 31 May 1949 in Bünde) [1] is a German literary scholar and writer who has also written under the pseudonym Klaus Steintal.Frequently described as a philosopher in the tradition of philosophical pessimism, he is perhaps most notorious for his view, often regarded as extreme even among other pessimist philosophers, that voluntary human extinction ought to be achieved by ...
Grover Glenn Norquist (born October 19, 1956) is an American political activist and anti-tax advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases.
Due to the monopoly on violence held by the state, the policeman is allowed to use force and the threat of force legally, while the suspect is not. In political philosophy , a monopoly on violence or monopoly on the legal use of force is the property of a polity that is the only entity in its jurisdiction to legitimately use force , and thus ...
Political violence varies widely in form, severity, and practice. In political science, a common organizing framework is to consider the types of violence which are used by the relevant actors: violence between non-state actors, one-sided violence which is perpetrated by a state actor against civilians, and violence between states.
Rape myths refer to the inaccurate views and stereotypes of forced sexual acts, and the victims and perpetuators of them. [9] These notions are prevalent among the general population and often suggest that the victims of non-consensual sexual acts have bad reputations, are promiscuous, dress provocatively, or are fabricating assault when they regret the consensual acts after the fact. [9]
Violence is often defined as the use of physical force or power by humans to cause harm and degradation to other living beings, such as humiliation, pain, injury, disablement, damage to property and ultimately death, as well as destruction to a society's living environment.
Redemptive violence is defined as a belief that "violence is a useful mechanism for control and order", [1] or, alternately, a belief in "using violence to rid and save the world from evil". [2] The French Revolution involved violence that was depicted as redemptive by revolutionaries, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and decolonization theorist Frantz Fanon was an ...