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Originally Posted by Adder
Sebby's thing mattered too, but there's little the Dems can really offer to get those people on board.
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There's little either party could offer anyone fitting into the social liberal/fiscal conservative bucket (and we're most of the country). Who the hell's going to meet at least 85% of these criteria:
Pro-choice
Pro gay marriage
Pro LGBT rights
Reasonable environmental regulation
Repeal of carried interest loophole
Reasonable deregulation of finance
Lower corporate tax rate
Encourage repatriation of offshore corporate money by offering one time tax discount or holiday
Decrease defense spending by 1/3-1/2
Non-interventionist foreign policy
Immigration reform w/emphasis on bringing in skilled, innovative human capital
Massive entitlement and program reform
Repeal of McCarran Ferguson Act to allow cross-border insurance competition
Encouragement of renewable energy and nuclear power
Ban on all surveillance of US Citizens w/o warrant
Disbanding of FISA courts
Net neutrality
Legalization of reasonably safe recreational drugs
Repeal of all mandatory minimums
Ban on private prison management of federal correctional facilities
Repeal of federal death penalty
Cap on federal student lending guarantees at $25k
Repeal of 2005 bankruptcy reform act
Cap top fed individual tax rate at 25%
Adjust progressive tax brackets by location cost of living (so coastal residents doesn't bear unfair share relative to their other expenses)
Repeal Medicare Part D
Allow govt price negotiation with big pharma
Cap gains rate to 10%
Repeal of alternative minimum tax
Make student loans taken out after 2005 dischargeable in bkcy up to 50%
I'm going to be voting third party for the rest of my life.
