RE: What is your political ideology? EDITED
February 17, 2011 at 9:09 am
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2011 at 9:18 am by reverendjeremiah.)
(February 16, 2011 at 10:40 pm)theVOID Wrote: Glen Beck would be way way more to the authoritarian side of the scale.
Are you sure? I would expect Beck to be in the bottom right hand side of the board. He wants the govt to barely exist. The top right would have him in the place of people like Hitler. If I am reading this board correctly:
Top left = communism
Top right = Fascism
Bottom left = Social democrat
Bottom right = libertarian
Beck says he is a conservative libertarian. That should put him in the bottom right sector.
(February 16, 2011 at 10:42 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I have this really hot economics major friend who liked to say "Communism looks fantastic on paper." And then if a piece of paper happened to be laying around, he'd pretend to wipe his ass with it.
LOL, good point. I read the communist manifesto, and I agreed with many things he said in it. Especially him comming down hard on America for slavery, treating minorites as chatle, and children working in sweat shops. But I do not agree with taking everything from everyone and redistributing it again. I do, on the other hand, feel that corporations should be kept on a leash to ensure the return to the society that helped them become so rich. Since when do corporations get to make great off of society but expect a free ride by not paying taxes and having endless tax loop holes and govt welfare/no-bid-contracts.
Flat tax is nothing more than theivery from the non-rich as it claims that everyone should pay the same percentage to the govt..but when it comes to food and shelter the rich are much better off.
If you make $500 a month, then 25% tax means the difference of barely making rent or not.
If you make $500,000 a month, then 25% tax may look like alot, but they can afford tax lawyers and good food and everything else.
I say if we should go to flat tax, then prices of goods should ALSO be based on percentages of your earnings. A gallon of milk costs $3.00 wether you make $300 a month or $3,000 a month.
Look at Florida..they turned the progressive tax completely upside down..so if you are mid class, you pay around 14% or so, but if you are rich you pay around 2%. How come the rich can benefit from society but cant put money back into our millitary or social services?
Its rude if you ask me.
