Originally posted by astrocreep
However, Bout Time, I have to admit you do make good arguments and I know you wouldn't think so but I voted for Clinton twice (not in the same
election) and I was torn on this last one. My decision came from the core belief of bringing people out of business and state gov..(like Gov Clinton)
and not putting in career politicains..ie 20 years in DC. That was a belief by our founding fathers as evident that most of our first presidents went
back into private business after holding office.
Plus, my area of expertise is geotechnology and thus I have uncovered a number of facts that really turn me off to the environmental movement..(not
the environment itself because I love the outdoors) but to the political "hijackers" who've really lost all direction in this going backward
beleif. I think poverty is the environments worst enemy because we always have to be able to clean the water we dirty but thats another discussion.
But, I'm not a fascists whatsoever..but I have come to realize that tax cuts cost nothing..tax increases cost. I'm all for education and helping
everyone afford health care but I don't believe a gov committee overseeing it will do anything except leach most of the funds. My ideas are to cut
out the middlemen and then we don't need to tax more because the money will go where its needed. I think 128 trillion should do these guys for 10
years or so.
I was as hardcore a Right Winger Reagan Republican as any 18 yr old could be with their first vote! Top shelf academic institutions, Society of
American Military Engineers card carrying member, NRA ( no guns, but I used to bow hunt )...you name it! But my logical mind went to work and
deconstructed the concept of trickle down economics, look at it through several lens....my budding capitalist one as well as my parents Union worker
one. It didn't work for either.
The exact reason why you said you voted for Bush is the one I used to vote against him - the
businessman-is-good-for-the-running-of-government-business-one. You have to start with a
real and accomplished business career first!!!
A Steve Case, Bill Gates, Jack Welch.......not someone who was handed all his company appointments and bankrupted them all!
Taxes & cuts can be looked at through an anology to science: you can't destroy matter, it just changes states. In the case of taxes, the federal
accounting system allows for the carrying of deficits as a accounting mechanism, state level does not - the money is there or it isn't, programs can
be paid for or they can't. What you get back, and it's paltry, you pay for at an increased state level - in the form of increased state income tax/
surcharges/property tax/tolls - everywhere they can to make up for the loss of Fed income.
I live in the country & am worried at the enviromental concession being given to corporations by this administration; Christine Whitman is nothing but
a rubber stamp to whatever intrest is lobbying the administration.