Dan Quayle: Revenue Enhancement

Posted by admin on Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Funny Money Quote – Former Vice President Dan Quayle was credited with some malapropisms, some slips of the tongue and some confusion of time and place, but here he says clearly in this funny money quote – no one was fooled. More in the video below.
 

 

“Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases ‘revenue enhancement’. Not so. No one was fooled” — Dan Quayle

 

 

In this quote, Dan Quayle is referring to a tactic used by some Republicans at the time of calling tax increases “revenue enhancement” instead. Quayle is suggesting that this was an unsuccessful attempt at rebranding tax increases, as no one was actually fooled by the term “revenue enhancement”.

He implies that the public understood these proposals were still tax increases, even if an alternative term was used. Overall, Quayle means that the Republican party’s effort to reframe tax increases by calling them “revenue enhancement” did not work, as people still viewed them as tax increases.