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Which issue is the most important to you?

Which issue is the most important to you?


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Well, you're forgetting the corporate welfare that politicians on the Right perform with their no-bid contracts and wasteful spending on defense contractors and military spending. These government contractors rely greatly on the Pentagon and Congress to keep them afloat. I think the military-industrial-congressional complex is just as corrupt as welfare entitlements. Until more conservatives get onto their politicians about corporate welfare, I don't see them as any different as politicians who endorse social welfare.

what exactly is corporate welfare. I hear that term alot and it has no real meaning

some say this is corporate welfare--a city offering tax abatement to a corporation contemplating building a factory in that city. That is not welfare-its called a negotiation. The city gets jobs, payroll taxes, and workers (who support other businesses such as diners near the new factory) which the city fathers believe is worth more to the city than "lost" tax revenues that would not exist unless the company built the factory in the first place

another example is say the owner of a NFL football team telling the current city in which it is located to help finance another stadium or the team moves to a teamless city willing to do so. That's not corporate welfare, that is again a quid pro quo

what do we get by subsidizing sloth and dependency? what do I get by paying lots of taxes so some 19 year old can have her 5th child with her 4th boyfriend? NOTHING-what i get is more crime and more dem voters voting for those who promise them more of my money
 
As long as people who actually paid income taxes have to follow the laws whoever they vote into office write, you get no resistance from me.

Actually, this is a horrible idea, since people could raise the amount of income taxes needed to be paid to be a citizen, and therefore cut out the voting rights of more and more of the population until a few hold all the legal power to impose their tyranny on the larger population. I don't think our Founding Fathers would support that at all.

It could become a formula for oligarchy, to be sure, unless voting were limited to people who paid any income taxes.

I'm not so sure that the founding fathers would find fault. Their idea, after all, was that only property owners would vote.
 
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