Conservatives: what does your ideal state look like?
 

I've always wondered about this. What would you, ideally, want your country to look like politically? (keeping in mind the realities of life, ofcourse)

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Maybe a mix of North Korea and Vatican ?!

Less government interference, less taxes, less goofy social programs, less micromanagement of society. Government should worry about protecting people from those that would hurt them, (providing common defense), and building infrastructure that no private entity would (roads, education, and municipal utilities). Beyond that, it would keep its hands out of others' affairs.

everyone will be naked

Government protects the borders and keeps the infrastructure in place.
Government stays out of morals and enforcement of them.
School funding is only paid by those with children.
Property tax is elliminated.
drug laws are decriminalized.
Ellimination of city police and only have sherrifs and marshals.
Ellimination of any sin tax, i.e. alcohol, tobacco, and so on.
Marriage is open to anyone willing to go down that path.

Ok I could go on, and yes I am a conservative.

I agree with you on all counts except the school funding one. I think that since everyone receives schooling when they're young, that they should pay for schools as an adult.


Drug posession laws and sin taxes need to be abolished, since what people do with themselves is none of anyone else's business. But as soon as someone is publicly intoxicated or driving while impaired, then it does become the business of others.

That's classical liberal/libertarian, not conservative. I agree with it for the most part, but it isn't conservative...

in business not people's personal lives, for the rich. The government has to run on SOME money where is it going to come from? The poor and middle class You mean like paying millionaire farmers NOT to grow food?, If you believed in everything you posted you vote libertarian not republican. Did you? Nope. Hypocrite!

Ok then middle ground with schools. A tax break if you do not have children. See under my plan my parents would of paid taxes for school funding because they had a kid, me.

Drug laws and sin taxes sure, I did not say that breaking a driving law would be decriminalized though so DUI would remain intact.

I'm a conservative right now because of the polarization of America. Believing in a Libertarian philosophy does nothing, since the lines have been drawn as Conservative/Liberal, and I don't want to live in a country run by the future visions of the Democratic party. I also don't agree with the libertarians on all issues, since some of their policies really hit a bad nerve with me, especially over immigration.

no minimum wage and monopolies as well, right?

Unfortunately, in our polarized society, a Libertarian vote is a wasted vote. I'm happy voting for whoever can feasibly stop the liberals.

Hmm, this country is based on immigration

Well let's see someone CHOOSE to smoke for 40 years despite knowing the dangers then when they are 65 they get lung cancer and guess who foots the bill for their treatment? ME the taxpayer. So you want to ge rid of "sin taxes" fine. Then if you choose activities and actions you know will lead to disease later YOU foot the bill not everyone else. I have no problem having a person who smokes contributing funds to their eventual medical care.

As far a as drug. Druggies are adrain to society. i've seen fist hand a druggie effect have on thier children they bring into the world. No jail often does no good as I have seen first hand and jails are already crowded. Simple solution build a reservation type area out west where all those that wish to be druggies can go live and go kill themselves slowly and let the rest of society alone.

Immigration in itself is not a problem. Open borders and complete chaos is a problem. There needs to be a sane system in place to ensure that criminals and others who will only strain the system will not be allowed in. I'm not opposed to immigration, unless it causes problems for the people already living in the country.

If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem. You're thinking is why we get 2 crappy choices every 4 years. You conservative "friends" are really doing you favors with their COPA, 2257 and .xxx shit aren't they? "Adult Webmasters For Bush " would be like "Jews For Hitler"

I don't believe in sin taxes, because I also don't believe its the job of the government or other taxpayers to foot the bill for somone's stupidity.

By definition, a sin tax is a tax on socially undesirable behaviors. Some jurisdictions have pornography taxes, which are sin taxes. Since when is it the job of the government to use a carrot and stick method to guide people's decisions for what they do with their own money?

Its not drug users which cause problems, its drug abusers. There are many people who use illegal drugs responsibly, and don't create problems.

Jailing drug users does nothing. The problem of addiction still remains.

Besides, drugs caused less problems before we had a prohibition on them.

I am on fence about mimimum wages, I am pretty sure they would take care of themselves yet I do not fully trust business to do the right thing.
Monopolies are fine as long as they occure in a free competition enviroment, hell we already have monopolies.

LEGAL immigration. we can't have just EVERYONE come live here that wants to. Our society can't handle that and frankly those that play by the rules and wait their turn should get the benefits of being an American citizen. if you can't even obey out simplest laws why in the fuck do I want you here?

I don't like Bush or any of the other religious right, so don't label them as "my friends".

I used the word "conservative" instead of "republican" because I was referring to ideology rather than voting behaviour. But what you're saying is that you don't follow conservative ideology, but are leaning towards classical liberalism and voted republican because of that?

The reason there is a minimum wage is because business weren't doing the right thing. You hate people on food staps and welfare now. Get rid of the minimum wage and when people are making $3 and hour watch how much larger the welfare rolls get.

Why do you consider yourself a conservative?

Minimum wages cut jobs. A business exists to make money, and if you set a minimum standard for "what labor is worth", then many jobs worth slightly below what that standard is will be eliminated. When minimum wages go up, many jobs worth no more than the old minimum wage rate get cut. This does affect those who need those jobs the most.

I know and reason I am on fence about it. I do notice though not every job is paying minimum wage when that is all they would have to.

I agree with conservative positions much more often than I do liberal positions, and in America today, those are the only two realistic choices available to voters.

But you vote for them.

Conservative got a bad word attached to it now since it was hyjacked by the right wing.
I am and have always been for less government and more personal responsibility.

Still better than Kerry, who would have been the bane of ALL taxpayers. For fuck's sake, his spending proposals were out of control, and would have hit all taxpayers hard, especially the most successful. Kerry was a Massachusetts liberal out of touch with America.

Thank you. The religious right does not speak for all conservatives.

Besides, politics is about comprimise, and if everyone voted for the candidate that best represented their personal views, the winner would have a plurality in the single or low double digits. Voters must instead select the most qualified candidate who has a chance of winning - basically, who will leave their constituents the best off after their term is over.

It isn't entirely true that the term conservatism was hijacked by the right wing. You see, conservatism has always been opposed to rapid social change, and has always been in favour of tradition and conservation of traditional values and institutions.

Then what's teh problem. See conservatives try to have it both ways. They say if you raise minimum wage jobs will be lost. Yet then they say so few people make minimum wage very few people will benefit from a raise so why do it? Well which is it? Also the myth that minimum wage increases increases inflation. well teh minimum wage was increase in 1996 and 1997, wage was the inflation? where was the unemployment. Seems like we had the best economy is 50 years around that time.

The reason why minimum age increase potentially hurt samll busineses is that increases are contantly put off until they can't be put off anymore and then they have to be raised by HUGE amounts. Well whose fault is that? REPUBLICANS. Minimum age is NOT going away. Anyone who proposes eliminating minimum wage will LOSE an election. So the best solution is what Florida is now, doing ANNUAL minimum wage increases tied to inflation. A small increase that you know for sure is coming every year is much easier to prepare for than a HUGE increase once every 7-10 years you never when it's coming and you pray never comes, but always does.

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That is a right wing talking point from Rush Limbaugh, not something you thought up yourself and it doesn't mean anything. Massachusetts is part of America and Kerry represents a lot more Americans than you do - they vote for him over and over again! :1orglaugh

Many people vote for the right wing because they are told to by the media, even though they disagree with almost everything the right wing does.

It's common even on GFY.

Kerry stands for universal healthcare, expansion of nonprivate social security, expansion of welfare, raising the minimum wage, yeilding US soverignty to the UN, and other big spending, big government programs. Ugh. :Oh crap


Next candidate please.

[QUOTE=kernelpanic]Still better than Kerry, who would have been the bane of ALL taxpayers. [quote]

How? Kerry said he wouldn't raise taxes. Not that he could since it's CONGRESS that has the power to do that and last time I checked it was controlled by republicans who I greatly doubt would have passed ANY tax increase proposal by Kerry.

Like Bush isn't running up a debt.

I see you drank the kool-aid of the GOP. Keep believing that shit. This is coming from a former republican that left the party because the religious right hi-jacked it. If Bush is so in touch how come he has 43% apporval rating?

If Kerry was President there wouldn't be any new 2257 rule.

You do realize that any of the things would have to be approved by CONGRESS. How likely is it that a republican controlled House and Senate would approve ANY of those things? Try THINKING, dude.

See ONE party rule sucks. How'd it work for Nazi Germany, the USSR or Iraq?

Bush is running up a massive debt, and I hope whoever comes after him will be able to effectively clean up the damage.

Bush sucks, Kerry would have been worse. Bush's waste wouldn't have been long lasting, but if Kerry would have been elected, his proposals would have become entrenched, as the people who they redistributed money to would have become dependant on them.

Its unfortunate that voting now comes down to which one of the major party candidates is less of a fucktard.

The "is" should be changed to "was".