Ok, the following entries in italics are from a person responding to a person's request for comments on what they thought of our current crop of Presidential candidates.
I had to respond, every so often I have to vent...
If you think your taxes are too low.
Well, since the federal budget has a huge deficit, I think it does need to generate more revenue somehow. And I do think that we need to spend more money on infrastructure (ie. roads) and more money on schools. So why do you think your taxes are too high?
If you think that "soak the rich" is a sound economic strategy.
Well, it makes more sense than "soak the poor". Again unless someone has a better idea than income tax for revenue generation it does make sense to me that the more money that you make that a larger percentage goes to supporting the government.
If you think that Judges should make laws from the bench per their views (not per the way the law was written, nor according to the some 200 years of tradition for which we've run the country).
Judges interpret laws. Laws that might not quite fit the world we live in at the moment. Don't like a particular interpretation, make a more specific law. "Tradition" I'm not sure why this is a value. It is used by people that don't have a better argument. There are far more things that were "traditionally" bad than were better. Me, I like electricity, women voting, and Cholera not being a major cause of death.
If you think the constitution is a "living" document.
Isn't that why we have those Amendment thingies?
If you think that just talking to people who 1) have openly expressed their desire to kill us, and who 2) fervently believe that them dying in the process is a ticket to paradise. If you think that is the way to get us more secure.
Why do you think that killing them will discourage others given your point #2? We have been killing them (or funding others to kill them) longer than they have been killing us. I wonder why they would be pissed off at us?
If you think that everybody should get healthcare provided by the government and doing it that way just works awesome in Canada so you want that system to be used here too.
You did imply that you liked the Constitution, how about the Declaration of Independence?
"...certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life..."
So, yea, silly me, I think that everyone as the right to healthcare. Would universal healthcare be expensive and complicated? yes! But our current "system" is already expensive, complicated and unfair (sometimes even unfair to those with coverage).
If you think that our borders are merely a line on a map and an inconvenient hindrance to all the folks that want to come here. (and if they come with a bomb in the back of their truck to blow us up with, well that's just the chance you're willing to take)
Well, they are a line on a map. And they are not much of a hindrance to anyone who wants to come here, even to people with little or no money and education. Do you honestly want to spend the money it would take to fortify the entire US border against well funded and organized illegal crossings? Inspect every shipping container? I thought you wanted to pay less taxes?
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