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What political area is most important to you?

What political area is the most important to you?

  • social issues

    Votes: 7 43.8%

  • economic issues

    Votes: 7 43.8%

  • foreign policy

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • not sure / don't care

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    16
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choice A includes such as abortion, gay marriage, guns, and weed

choice B issues pertaining to money such as an ideal tax system, social security, minimum wage, and welfare

choice C basically outside of the US
 
Social issues. They affect me on a more personal level.
 
I went with "economic", as long as we include healthcare in there.
 
Social issues. Many people are angry at me for many of my views, but so what?
 
Simple(ish)...
I want America to balance her budget,
turn the military back into a tiny peacetime/massive reservist armed forces,
kill/neuter the Fed,
stay out of the economy completely except for fraud,
simplify the tax code so almost anyone can do their taxes in five minutes plus make capital gains/income tax rates identical (the rich will hate that last part),
bring in full health care for children/disabled/veterans - basic for every one else that needs it (including seniors),
stay completely out of other countries business unless their is major genocide/large natural disaster/direct threat to American sovereignty (btw - ISIL is NO THREAT to American sovereignty),
and ALL welfare is in the form of regional shelters run by the government - no funds handed out (except to the disabled/veterans).
 
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DA60 said:
bring in full health care for children/disabled/veterans - basic for every one else that needs it (including seniors),
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Thank you very much. I have Autism and Depression.
 
DA60 said:
Simple(ish)...
I want America to balance her budget,
turn the military back into a tiny peacetime/massive reservist armed forces,
kill/neuter the Fed,
stay out of the economy completely except for fraud,
simplify the tax code so almost anyone can do their taxes in five minutes plus make capital gains/income tax rates identical (the rich will hate that last part),
bring in full health care for children/disabled/veterans - basic for every one else that needs it (including seniors),
stay completely out of other countries business unless their is major genocide/large natural disaster/direct threat to American sovereignty (btw - ISIS is NO THREAT to American sovereignty),
and ALL welfare is in the form of regional shelters run by the government - no funds handed out (except to the disabled/veterans).
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None of that is simple and a few contradict each other.
 
The poll really needed to be multiple choice. I'd pick economic, social, and foreign policies. They all affect human lives.

TheGoverness said:
Social issues. They affect me on a more personal level.
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Really? (I know that you're not straight, of course.)
 
SCitizen said:
Thank you very much. I have Autism and Depression.
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Charities will take up the slack - like they used to do. Plus, all pre-existing conditions will be covered.

Sorry you have those two conditions.
 
Crovax said:
None of that is simple and a few contradict each other.
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Well, I did say simple(ish). Simple as in straightforward - not simple as in easy. All of it is straightforward (to me at least).

And which contradict each other? None that I see.
 
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Masterhawk said:
choice A includes such as abortion, gay marriage, guns, and weed

choice B issues pertaining to money such as an ideal tax system, social security, minimum wage, and welfare

choice C basically outside of the US
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Where would 'environmental' fit?
 
Phys251 said:
Well, enjoy the next four years and the hate that's been unleashed. :/
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Oh, I got plenty of that in school. But I've learned to tune most of it out; they aren't worth my time.

But it still gets to me sometimes.
 
DA60 said:
Well, I did say simple(ish). Simple as in straightforward - not simple as in easy. All of it is straightforward (to me at least).

And which contradict each other? None that I see.
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Balancing the budget and neutering the fed. If you take away the feds power to help stabilize the economy then you get to a situation where we would need to go into a big deficit but not have the ability to.

As for being straight forward I would say that all policies are that. It's the implementation that makes them complicated even your simple polices would be very complicated by the time the bills are written.
 
Crovax said:
Balancing the budget and neutering the fed. If you take away the feds power to help stabilize the economy then you get to a situation where we would need to go into a big deficit but not have the ability to.

As for being straight forward I would say that all policies are that. It's the implementation that makes them complicated even your simple polices would be very complicated by the time the bills are written.
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Are you saying that America managed to have a strong economy for hundreds of years with minimal government assistance...but now it has to have massive government assistance just to keep it above water?

Sorry...that makes no sense. You have been listening to too many Keynesians/Krugmanites.

I say the reason the economy has stagnated for so long is because of the massive government/Fed interference. Just look at Japan and the stagnant mess it has become under decades of gigantic government stimulation/manipulation.

Anyway...obviously you disagree. But my thoughts are based on the fact that America's economy did far better without government assistance than it has with government assistance.
 
DA60 said:
Are you saying that America managed to have a strong economy for hundreds of years with minimal government assistance...but now it has to have massive government assistance just to keep it above water?

Sorry...that makes no sense. You have been listening to too many Keynesians/Krugmanites.

I say the reason the economy has stagnated for so long is because of the massive government/Fed interference. Just look at Japan and the stagnant mess it has become under decades of gigantic government stimulation/manipulation.

Anyway...obviously you disagree. But my thoughts are based on the fact that America's economy did far better without government assistance than it has with government assistance.
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You do realize that we had a central bank from 1791 until 1836 and the fed was created in 1913.

So we only were without a central bank for 77 years not the "hundreds" of years you claim. Alternate history I guess. But in that time there were quite a few bank/financial panics. In fact there were more during those 77 years without a central bank than we have had with a central bank. Heck we went into a 5 year depression in 1837 just after the 2nd central bank had its charter run out.
 
Chomsky said:
I went with "economic", as long as we include healthcare in there.
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I think healthcare would fall under social. Healthcare and social programs impact so much of the economy that they can be pretty much considered both.
 
Economic issues.
 
The economy, always. The others are of very minor importance.
 
Obviously it depends on context; at present economic as despite turmoil in remote (to us) regions of the world we're not in any major world wars, there is no present existential crisis to the west, and the social situation is relatively acceptable compared to the economic one which is bad and worsening in trajectory in terms of equality of opportunity/inequality.
 
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