"I actually believe in redistribution"

The government is We The People. The government can do nothing if its elected representatives do not make it that way. You have the power affect how much you are taxed. We all do.

Explain this. HTF is "class warfare" part of taxation?

Well, that's easy enough. You should get Google.

G.O.P. Shift Moves Center Far to Right

The GOP slides right, and the rest of us should worry

Why Ronald Reagan Would Not Lead Today’s GOP
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Thanks, GOP candidates, for move to far right


Crist: ‘I Didn’t Leave the Republican Party – It Left Me’

Examples? Some of the activists have, but that has always been the case. But the rank and file democrats are mostly moderates.

Taxation was forcible when King George sent an army here to collects its taxes. But we fought a Revolution in order to tax ourselves in a democratic system. If you vote, then you are part of the government and you are voluntarily paying your taxes. Has anyone every threatened you and sent an army to make you pay your taxes?

 

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Tell me, Jethro . . . if the government cannot create jobs why does the GOP blame obama for not creating jobs? How can Mitt Romney claim to be able to create millions of them? Your logic is severely flawed.

 

Not at all. It s clear that God creates jobs, white bread and corn syrup is the solution to our woes, and stealing intellectual property puts people out of work.

 

Your ignorance of the Constitution is not my problem. Thomas Jefferson laughs at your foolishness.

Your mama wears combat boots.

Allow me to demolish this argument by pointing out that is was George Bush policies that resulted in the losses of millions of jobs in the 2008-2009 recession. Under Obama we have enjoyed 30 straight months of positive private sector job growth. Read it and weep.

Bullshit republican campaign spin. Businesses are sitting on cash right until more customers appear. Until Europe straightens out its financial mess, world finances will be sluggish. It don't mean shit whether a Republican or Democrat is in office. Businesses will start spending cash and hiring when the citizens start buying. The recession caught many Americans with insufficient cash and assets and right now they are saving more and spending less. Saving more is a good thing for Americans, but its keeping the economy growing slowly.

But the economy is growing (12 straight quarters of positive GDP) us out of the financial mess the Republican administration left us in. No one wants more of that crap.

 

In what manner has taxation been used to right perceived class differences?

You are confusing progressive taxation with Robin Hood.

Of course, but swing voters are not happy about it.

Clinton clearly took the democratic party towards the center. Republican women elected him twice. Obama is not as moderate as the Clintons, but far more so than the extreme liberal Teddy Kennedy. Obama takes a lot of flak from the extreme liberal end of the democratic party. But most Democrats stand on the moderate end.

Obama Revealed: A Moderate Republican


New Democrats

Nonsense. The Democrats have always supported R. v Wade and are not trying to change it. You have no case.

That's not a move to the left, its acknowledging a paradigm shift in national thought. Most Americans have accepted gay marriage and so have the Democrats. The intolerant and inflexible Republicans have not and will lose more and more votes as time goes on and leaves them behind.

More nonsense. There are plenty of religious democrats.

No news here. It basically states the obvious.

1. Democrats, by an overwhelming margin, think democratic ideology is about right.
2. Independents are split on Democratic ideology.
3. Republicans overwhelmingly think democratic idology is too liberal.

So you have posted very good data which reveals that your opinion that the democrats are too liberal is entirely partisan. I completely agree.