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Originally Posted by 12clicks
for me it was when liberals started to decide how much a succesfull person should be happy with and when they decided they knew best on who should recieved a tax cut.
you see, evenwhen I was poor I knew that you should not punish success and I resented the liberals thinking I was dumb enough to buy into their "evil rich" mantra.
Stealing from the rich to give to the poor is not right just because we can get the uneducated rabble to vote for it.
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I agree with that. I'm fiscally conservative, socially liberal. I'm against many of the liberal policies that reach out to re-distribute the wealth.
But when theKing talks about "traditional values" and taxes, he's wrong. "Traditional taxes" were at nearly 94% for the wealthiest people and well above what we pay now. Nixon is the one that signed in the Alternative Minimum Tax, while both Nixon and Ford raised taxes on Capital Gains. While conservatives have a better stance on taxes now, their history is not strong on this issue.