Dragonlady
Designing Woman
- Dec 1, 2012
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Are you fessin' up to be a gub'mint worshiping left winger? or is it that you don't really know the difference between a liberal and a gub'mint worshiper ?
Let me help you out ...
Bernie Sanders a gub'mint worshiping leftist
Thomas Jefferson a liberal
The gub'mint worshiping left wingers that like to call themselves liberals .. oh wait it's back to "progressives" again (now that they've managed to dirty up the word "liberal" they have to change their masks) do indeed believe the state should micro-manage everybody's lives, everything from how much of the fruits of their labor they should be allowed to keep to what sort of light bulbs they should be allowed to buy.
You're picking up the peanuts while being trampled by the elephants.
Liberals believe in freedom - freedom from the fear of illness, freedom to marry the person you love, freedom for women to decide when to have a baby. These are freedoms right-wingers would take away.
Government has shrunk under Obama and under Bill Clinton before him. It grew under Reagan - the ultimate "anti-government" president hired 1 million civil servants when unemployment hit 6% because it was "good for the economy" to have people working. Reagan also told us that "deficits don't matter". Both Bush's also increased the size of government. W set up a whole new branch of government - Homeland Security, entirely unfunded.
So while Republicans SAY they want to shrink government and get government out of your life, in fact the opposite is true. Republicans want to police who consenting adults have sex with, set up guards at washroom doors for fear a transgendered person might use the women's washroom, and establish morals tests for immigrants.
Trump wants to set up a police state, deporting anyone he feels like it. The massive amount of government required to deport 11 million people is staggering. Then he's hiring more police to clean up black neighbourhoods.
Taxes are the price you pay for living in a first world country. If you don't like that idea, there are lots of countries without income tax you could look into. They're Third World hell-holes with no police, unless you bribe them, no infa-structure, no security, no regulation, but you'll be free to live as you choose. Just be careful about what you eat or drink - no inspections, no regulations, don't show off your wealth - that could get you killed.