which party is for less laws?

[LargeCents]

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Reps are fascist and Dems are commies.



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Which party wants to lower taxes and which party wants to raise taxes?

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Taxes are a loaded issue. Bush cut taxes, but I didn't get any of it. Both parties want to raise/lower taxes to maximize their respective leverage. They just have funny ways of conveying it to the "idiot masses". Tax issues are a polital tactic only. It's like asking whether winning poker players check-raise more than losing poker players. You are really missing the forest for the trees.

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Less money for the govt equals less power over the people.

[/ QUOTE ] Isn't it government's role to empower "the people"? The bottom line is value. What are we getting in return for our government spending? "Less money for goverment means more money for us" is like saying "Spending less at the grocery store leaves more money in my wallet.", nevermind whether the kids are being fed, right? You are just looking at the bottom line, not the big picture.

[Cyrus]

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Reps are fascist and Dems are commies.

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Everybody's into 5000-colors viewing these days so why you still in black and white ?

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Reps are fascist and Dems are commies.




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It was a jopke, Howdy.

I think it is a sarcastic response to the fact that most Americans are just pawns in a political chess game between the Republicans and Democrats in modern times. Somehow it seems like the checks and balances are slowly being removed leaving the average American citizen powerless against an increasingly totalitarian system.

[bholdr]

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Niether. Only Libraterian's want fewer laws. Reps are fascist and Dems are commies.

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...and libertarians must be drunk.


love the post, though, lehighguy.

[Cyrus]

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It was a joke, Howdy.

[/ QUOTE ] It was a generalisation. (And a false one at that.)


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I think it is a sarcastic response to the fact that most Americans are just pawns in a political chess game between the Republicans and Democrats in modern times.

[/ QUOTE ] You cannot be implying collusion and at the same time placing (even as a "joke") the two parties at the extreme opposite ends of the political spectrum.

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I think it is a sarcastic response to the fact that most Americans are just pawns in a political chess game between the Republicans and Democrats in modern times.

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You cannot be implying collusion and at the same time placing (even as a "joke") the two parties at the extreme opposite ends of the political spectrum.

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Why can't he be? Ever hear of "implicit collusion"? (as in a poker tournament when two opponents "check it down" to maximize the chances of elimating another opponent)

How might this work in politics? Since both major parties favor "big government", perhaps there is implicit collusion going on somehow betweeen these two adversaries (in order to shut out truly rival parties such as LP)....well, you work out the details;-)

But...it is rather farfetched to think that the two major parties are really at extreme opposite ends of the political spectrum. Some of their members just think they are---and thus the illusion of serious competition is perpetuated. There is actually relatively little to differentiate the Republican Party from the Democrat Party--The Deaniac's rhetoric notwithstanding.

[jj_frap]

Which party is less influenced by the religious right?

There's your answer...

The problem with state rights is that it gives states the right to throw people in jail for their choice of card game or sexual position should the ignorant masses hate freedom sufficiently.

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They're stated politics are at the opposite of the political spectrum. When I say stated politics I mean what they would do if they had 100% control of all branches of government tommorrow. They're actual carrying out of those politics in our current system is entirely random and based on personality, corruption, and financing.

Collusion, perhaps a collusion of incompetence. If you come to expect incompetence you don't demand anything more. Such an expectation covers our entire society these days as people expect incompetence from: government, politicians, news organizations, media personalities, business leaders, academic institutions, charitable organizations, etc. Naming a large instituion people trust is quite an excersise isn't it.

[lehighguy]

A better question is which wants to lower spending, as lower spending leads to lower taxes. Both parties fail miserably on this count.

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Republicans want to lower taxes? Then why do they spend worse then drunken sailors? Why was it the Dems who paid down the deficit? If you pay your mortgage on a credit card instead of cash are you lowering your "household taxes"? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
Bush approved of every spending bill put in front of him while Tom Delay says pork is GOOD. Wise up.