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I'm nominally Republican Tom Send a noteboard - 07/01/2012 03:30:26 AM
Let's just say that if Santorum were the candidate I'd have no choice but to sit out the election (or, if it got really bad, donate to Obama). If Romney is the candidate I'll probably give money to his campaign because I think Obama is a terrible President who has done little more than give endless speeches with empty platitudes and signed everything that Congressional Democrats have vomited out, sometimes with his help (I guess he held the feather).

Of course, I am liberal on social issues. Gay marriage? Of course. Abortion? Safe and legal. Porn? More, please. Drugs? One word: legalize. Consenting adults have the right to choose how to live their lives, and the only things that should be illegal are trespasses against the person or property of another (theft, arson, rape, murder, all the way down to simple things like noise pollution at unreasonable hours).

It's just that when people start to say, for example, "we need universal health care", I start to ask - "What do you mean to cover, how much is it going to cost and who's going to pay for it?" Am I against putting an additional tax of 3-5% on that portion of personal income in excess of $1 million? No. I think that's fine. Am I against putting that same 3-5% on everyone making in excess of $250,000? Yes. In lots of urban areas families can be simply middle class at that level and it would kill the economy.

Do I like unions? No. In theory, they could be good, and some local unions are, but in general they're unreasonable and belligerent, in some cases criminal.

Does that make me a Republican?

And I do like that link, thank you.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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