[QUOTE="Wasdie"][QUOTE="CRS98"]Just more idiots trying to deny progress.CRS98
More government programs and taxes are progress?
Everyone else is doing it, and the only reason we have not ventured to that is because of Reagan and his idea of 'limited government'.Just because everybody else is doing it doesn't mean it's a good thing. Higher taxes and deficit spending cannot be a good thing for any country.
Government in this country shouldn't be large. Again, there is NO reason we have to copy the systems of other nations. The government needs to protect the people's rights, not take responsibilities away from them.
Regan's idea of limited government would be great if he wouldn't have also jacked up spending on the military like he had. The idea of small government and a large private sector isn't a bad thing. It's only really bad when you start deficit spending like mad. Now it's coming back to haunt us. Instead of reducing and maybe increasing taxes here and there to make a surplus, we are given a couple trillion dollars more in spending.
How is that progressive? Feel-good policies like health care and social security don't make for good laws. They take the responsibility of the citizens and puts it on the state, which in turn puts the responsibility on everybody, not just those who it's effecting.
The US is not built on the idea that everybody is fair. The only thing we are all supposed to be completely equal on is our rights as laid out in the Constitution. We have the right to peruse happiness, we have to catch it ourselves. The idea that you can take away personal responsibility and give it to others isn't progressive, it's actually a step back as it slows all sectors down. Then we have some serious problems.
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