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Originally Posted by Azure
And I'm not in favor of politicians who want to raise corporate taxes to pay for ridiculous spending programs that won't improve the social quality of life anyways.
The US is far beyond the point of 'finding a way, DOWN the road' to fix the problem they have now.
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I recognize the importance of keeping corporate tax at competitive levels, but these evil social programs go a long way towards creating a better society for all of us. The slums and gutters in America are many times worse than they have ever been, the problems created by poverty and a lack of a workable saftey net have been mounting in that country for years. In Canada we could do more to make it more efficient and ensure that people are enabled to pick themselves up and out of welfare and into the workforce, but eliminating the efforts to reduce poverty would create a decaying social problem that is plaguing the US. There is a reason the US government pays more per capita on healthcare despite not covering millions of their citizens, there is a reason 1 out of every 100 americans are in prison, there is a reason crime and poverty in urban centres get worse every year, and that reason is a failed ideology. The reagan/socially conservative philosophy. The pure capitalist ideology.
The Liberals were the party of business, while also being the party of social progress. Now that they have come back from the far left, they are best choice for the best form of government we have yet to come up with.
I am in a rush, I will write more when I get off work... sorry for jumping all over the map and skipping things.