Trojan horse

Reagan's theory was really "trickle down" economics borrowed from the Republican 1920s (Harding-Coolidge-Hoover) and renamed "supply side." Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided to me at the time, the supply-side rhetoric "was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate." Many middle-class and poor citizens figured it out, even if reporters did not.

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I put it to you, Minister, that you are looking a Trojan horse in the mouth.

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Politics: a Trojan horse race.

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Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

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