Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa
How does this jive with the gay marriage issue? seems like Republicans want to legislate their vision of social engineering.
BTW, I know it's hard enough to place labels and then define them, but I would use Republican/Democrat more than Con/Lib.
I'm fiscally conservative, socially liberal/libertarian (I don't care what you do or how you live you life so long as you aren't hurting anyone or sucking off society), education is the silver bullet, I like guns but like waiting periods, the death penalty (for murder and rape), would rather see a culture of adoption than one of abortion, government should stay out of our personal lives, but a safety net is important. I am completely against the welfare system, mainly because it propagates cycles (poverty, need, expectation, abuse) rather than breaks them. The end game is that when you don't work for something, when it's just given to you, you'll never appreciate it, you'll never understand achievement, you'll never learn anything and be able to take those skills to modify them to tackle new challenges. Entitlement programs are poorly designed to make you FEEL like you are one thing, but don't give you the tools to actually BE that thing. BTW, this also describes the occupation of Iraq.
have also posted my solution for illegal immigration:
The solution to illegal alien immigration is simple:
1. For every illegal alien caught, no matter the circumstances, we bill the Mexican government for all costs associated with deporting each alien. I would privatize this and make cost + fee contracts the standard.
2. If/when Mexico doesn't pay, the $ are just deducted from foreign aid packages or added to a tariff outside of NAFTA
3. Every business caught employing illegal aliens is fined 2X the industry/regional standard annual salary for every year that alien was employed, no pro-rate, so if employed for 13 months, the company is still fined for 2 years of salary.
4. Companies found employeeing illegal aliens cannot bid on or receive government contracts for 5 years after discovery
5. 2-tier tax credit for business:
1. If you are in an industry that typically hires foreign labor, you get an XX% tax credit for every American citizen you employ that would normally be filled by an immigrant
2. You get a X% credit for every legal immigrant you hire
6. All illegal aliens must go back to Mexico and apply for legal, temporary status. This would work in concert with businesses here in the states who would determine who is here illegally, pay for their bus trip back to Mexico, get the temporary status paperwork completed, get them back to work. See above on tax credit.
7. All illegal aliens back in the States must attend business/government sponsored U.S. History and English classes for 1 year.
I vote Democrat as the party of lesser of 2 evils with a slight edge in vision.
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