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Old 10-03-2012, 07:20 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by mineistaken View Post
By the way why minorites love democrats so much? Does that mean that democrats goes for the poor/loser vote by promising them welfare, benefits, better standarts and stuff like that? Meaning that country would be better off under republican rule (that won't favor poor/losers that much as democrats)?
I am genuinely interested (as non American)
Another reason is that democrats tend to put into place things like the earned income credit and other tax credits so that very poor people can, in some cases, actually get more money back than they paid in in taxes.

It isn't strictly welfare. One of the biggest reforms to welfare came while Clinton was in the white house.
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