01-25-2017, 02:49 PM
(01-25-2017, 01:21 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Even though I am a Right leaner, I would gladly have Universal Healthcare for all USC's and would give up 1% of my income if it insured that kids would be able to go to college for free.
(01-25-2017, 02:19 PM)hollodero Wrote: Maybe economically you aren't...? It's not "right" I'd say to be for strict immigration laws. And apart from the remittance tax for wall financing and the lesser regulation part your economic position seems to be quite "leftish". As in "more left than Obamas policies were".
(Not to mention the one of xxlt - which I would even call socialistic, would I not be so afraid that he would regard that label as a severe insult.)
Well, the problem is that we shove people in these large groups of conservative v. liberal or right v. left, but in truth there are people that are on the right for some issues that would share my opinion on the most equitable and economical way to distribute public goods is through the public sector and not through the open market. Things like education and health care are public goods in today's thinking, yet health care has always been privatized in this country and education has been a mix.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
