Obama... Man Were We All Fooled...

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TheRealMafoo said:

akuma587 said:
Is it fair for people who can barely afford to pay for their food and rent to have to pay as much of a percentage of their income as taxes when there are people out there who were born into an affluent family, were able to receive an education, and are a professional making over 150k a year on their own?

Fairness to one person is not fairness to another. My family makes over 150k, and I do not think that is fair. To quote the Bible, which many Republicans conveniently ignore when it doesn't suit their interests, "The only thing they asked us to do was to remember the destitute, the very thing I was eager to do." Galatians 2:10.

I have just never understood how the purportedly Christian party can have such an unsympathetic attitude towards the poor? It just doesn't make sense to me, unless you assume they are hypocrites.

I am not talking about you Kasz, as I have no idea what your religious orientation is.

And I am not claiming that religion should have any place in politics, I just find it very contradictory that the Republican Party claims to have the high ground on religious issues (or at least, religious issues as it defines them).

 

This is where you and I disagree a great deal. I feel it is our responsibility as a country, and a people, to remove all roadblocks that allow individuals to be successful. In this country, anyone can go to collage, vote, hold any job, live anywhere, and hold any public office.

The color of your skin, and your economic background at birth do not define how far you can go.

Now, we live in a free country, and as a free county, not only do we have the freedoms to succeed, we also have the freedoms to fail. If one makes the choices that leads him or her to failure, as sad as it is, it does not mean it's now the responsibility of the people who made the right choices to take care of you.

Our Declaration of Independence granted us "life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". The key world is pursuit. Happiness is not to be given to us, we need to do what is required to achieve it.

Here are some reasons why neither party supports that.  ("life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" from the Declaration of Independence which is not a legal document in the US anyway)

Life:

Republicans: War and Death Penalty

Democrats: Abortion and Death Penalty

 

Liberty:

Republicans: Disregard for privacy and jurisprudence, supporting censorship in all media.

Democrats: Supporting censorship in some forms of media.

 

"Pursuit of Happiness" (Traditionally property from Locke's work)

Republicans: Devalue your money by spending running huge defecits.  This is why prices shot up and home prices collapsed (when a bank has a loan out and money is worth less, than they lose money because the interest rate is lower than real world inflation)

Democrats: Raise corporate taxes (raising retail prices) and taxes on the rich.

 

Neither party is innocent.