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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Disagree. Libertarians are not interested in setting up the protections required to protect those of us who face discrimination. This argument is in the same vein as those bullshit artist Republicans who say, "I'm socially liberal, but fiscally conservative." No you're not. Because there's no such thing. Whenever it comes down to actually funding support for those social issues you pretend you care about, you're nowhere to be found. And that's because you don't really care about them. All you care about is less taxes.
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Dissent. I am socially liberal but fiscally conservative. I want to reduce the overall size of government with a negative income tax, I want to end subsidies to banks, Pharma, Big Ag, and I want to tax the carried interest as wages, which is what it is.
I want to take those savings and nationalize health care, improve education by giving block grants to schools in areas that have smaller tax revenue bases than the country at large, increase both community policing and parks and recreation facilities and outreach in neighborhoods, again through block grants.
I want to be fiscally conservative by making administration of the block grants subject to oversight boards made up of educators, law enforcement, and, most importantly, citizens.
I want to be socially liberal by federal legislation making sexual and gender orientation protected classes. I want to strengthen and expand the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and I want to promote stronger communities by using scattered site housing for Section 8 and other public housing.
I also recognize I am dreaming. But I am socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
