Sincere question for liberals....PLZ answer!!?

Question

This has become my viewpoint on the expectations I should have when evaluating liberal/leftist policies. Please correct me if I am seeing this incorrectly:

Rather than having my wages in my pocket and having the option of who I should help and/or give $$$ to, the government should assume that I am selfish with MY WAGES, and more of my wages should be FORCEBLY taken from me in the form of taxes and given to the poor (lame, crippled, blind...etc..)

Answer 1

I am not a liberal... but I love coragryphs's answer.

Answer 2

I would rather they spend my tax dollars helping people who are unfortunate. That doesn't mean just handing out money. There are many people who pretend to be "poor" but are deceitful or just plain lazy. For the record I think it doesn't matter what nationality, race or creed all contribute to stealing from "our" government. Face it some people always take the easy way out and don't want to work. I just wish the government didn't p*ss away so much money on defense systems that are just rip-offs to fill other deceitful people’s pockets on the other end of the spectrum. Honesty and truth would be a nice change of pace. Yes, I know I am a dreamer but there is always hope.

Answer 3

The non-liberal government also assumes you are selfish with your money and instead of helping people they give it to the truly needy (sarcasm)- big corporations forsubsidies to keep them in business and make them more profitable.

The question of taxation is no longer a democrat/republican issue. The issue of where the taxes go and who is carrying much of the tax burden is the real issue. I personally would rather have the money that I am responsible to pay to be a member of this society go toward the betterment of those who cannot do for themselves than to be an additional cushion so that the fat rich guys can afford to invest in offshore accounts.

Taxes are the price we pay for having some organization in our culture. It isn't a burden. It's the price of admission.

Answer 4

While cantcu is making up stats i will give him one.

"The Top 50% pay 96.54% of All Income Taxes
The Top 1% Pay More Than a Third: 34.27%"

ok, i am by no means rich but ranting and raving about fake things is bullsh**. Maybe if you could get some proof for once instead of lying all the time...

Most liberals are like you say and as someone else mentioned, it is mainly the democratic platform, but most liberals base themselves on that, so that is a correct sterotype since not all sterotypes are 100% accurate

Answer 5

Actually that's more of a Democratic party platform, and not actually part of the purely liberal agenda.

The distinction is that why Democrats are mostly liberal, there are some differences, just as the Republicans don't always follow a purely conservative agenda. Welfare is one of those differences, where it's core to the Democratic platform, but liberals in general are equally split on both sides of that issue.

The reason, from the Democratic perspective, is that it is the role and job of government to take care of all citizens, especially those who cannot take care of themselves. The theory is that as an inter-dependent society, each citizen has the responsibility to care for all other citizens, and the government has the responsibility to manage (and mandate) that effort.

This can range from providing public education, so that the workforce is sufficiently trained and educated, to providing government-subsidized health-care for those who need medical care, to providing government handouts for those who do not work.

That's why I say it's not really a liberal issue. At the education side of the spectrum, almost all liberals support the idea of public schools and government funded health-care, but there's a big split on issues like welfare, social security or other handouts.

Answer 6

I think your question and statement refers to a political question about taxation.
You are correct that "liberals" generally support social services as a vital function of government (that is, they approve of government support of social services like schools, hospitals, paramedic services, food services for the poor, etc. more than "conservatives" do). But you confuse the issue when you paint it in such a way as to suggest that a substantial portion of your taxes are "given to the poor." If you do not count government pensions - which go to anybody, of course, regardless of wealth or poverty - less than ten percent of your taxes goes to "the poor." Did you know that about 16% of your federal tax goes to pay just the interest on the national debt (now over $7 trillion)? If you really want to lower your taxes, why not address the 16%, which is much more substantial? (The portion that goes to the military is about 13%). By the way, good ol' GW Bush ran his campaign in 2000 on the promise of huge tax rebates. There was no excess money! The country was simply mortgaged to give money to the rich, and now you pay interest on this "giving to the rich." In the last six years the GAO (Government Accounting Office) has reported that the national debt has risen from about $5.5 trillion to $7.7 trillion. Now about sixteen cents on every dollar goes to just pay the interest on the debt (in other words, it does not truly buy anything at all - just the way the interest you pay on your credit card doesn't buy anything). Government spending has increased substantially in the last six years, and it isn't because of a renewed interest in "giving to the poor." Pay more attention. Read more. Learn.

Answer 7

You make the biggest incorrect assumption, though it would be a good start!

Where do you think Liberals money goes to? A war we, in general, don't support?

Or pay taxes for your kids to go to school?

What is Bush's 2 tax cuts where 90% of the cuts went to the wealthiest 1%??? That's wealth redistribution! Taking from the poor to give to the rich!

Wealthy people don't pay much in tax, and almost no corporation pays any at all!

I think your premise is an age old rationalization used by the rich to screw the poor! And it isn't true!

Answer 8

Actually a very small percentage of your tax money goes to help the poor. You want to *****, complain about the huge tax cuts for the wealthy or the hundreds of billions spent in Iraq. The rich get richer and it's not the poor peoples fault.

Answer 9

A point that I brought up a while back.

There is little difference between Liberals and the mob when it comes to separating you from your money. The mob uses baseball bats and firebombs, while Liberals use senators and congressmen.

Answer 10

Yes. Our ends justify the seizure of YOUR means.

Love, Jack.

Answer 11

well if the miltary had to depend on individual charity, particularly at this time of dwindling support for our iraqi endeavor, do you wonder what what might happen to our image on the world stage?