Why Does Atheism and Left-Wing Politics Usually Go Together?

[Marshmallow]

But there's another level to it. See, I want to see wealth tied to a persons productivity simply because I think we can accomplish more that way.

Wouldn't we all?

However, this conversation seems to be the key difference I notice between most Libertarians and Republicans. Libertarians preach the good of a free market while the Republicans try to keep pushing trickle down economics. I can respect the views of the Libertarians, even if I don't agree with them. .

I explained the difference earlier. Social opinions are nowhere near the same. The rights to abortion, welfare, structure of the federal government itself, Medicare, public education, state's rights and border policies are a handful of areas the parties disagree. Economics are an area the most Republicans and Libertarians can agree, as both stances are moderately to severely conservative in nature.

Personally, I'd like to institute more libertarian policies, but first we have to reduce the power and influence of corporations. I fear that if we simply reduce the size and scope of the government without doing that, corporations will become the defacto government and they'll be a fuck of a lot harder to control than our government is now.

Negative. If we realign our economy from a federal base on down, everything will fall into place. Industry could be brought back to the Americas if tariffs were placed on imports from American outsourced labor in order to increase the cost of production to an equal to or greater price than domestic production. The size of the government would make no difference, as current laws allow super corporations to run global markets in our back yards. Fifty thousand Feds can't change what fifty couldn't if there are no laws to enforce.