It baffles me too. I can't understand why someone earning 30k a year would do the bidding for Republicans. Sadly, they've become brainwashed by wedge issues like abortion, guns and gays. Too bad!
2007-08-18 14:54:10
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answered by Fern O 5
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I'm only middle class, but I still make enough that high taxes hurt.
None the less, I'm starting to wonder why I'm a Republican. The threat of East and West Coast Liberals just doesn't do it anymore when the lunatic fringe in control of the Republican Party is even scarier (plus I'm sick of being called a RINO). Besides, there's at least signs that Western Democrats (as in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada) might have a little more say in the Democratic Party and that the Dems might actually be the more moderate party.
(Of course, Dems will only crow about how people are flocking to the Democratic Party until they realize who's coming to the party. They might not like having neo-libs in the party.)
2007-08-18 22:05:35
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answered by Bob G 6
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I would probably vote Democrat 100% of the time (instead of only like 75%) if it wasn't for three issues:
1) Taxes. The Federal Govt is simply not a good steward of our tax dollar. They waste way too much money!
2) Guns. The last defense of a free people against a tyrannical government. Could Hitler have pulled that crap against the Jews without disarming them first?
3) National Defense. Broad generalization here I know, but it seems like the Democrats are kinda "wimpy" when it comes to defending our country.
2007-08-18 22:11:29
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answered by Anonymous
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I am by no means rich. I vote republican because taxes are too high as it is and democrats only raise taxes, which means the government takes more of my money. I vote republican because I do not believe that we as Americans are responsible to pay of for others to have what they are to lazy to pursue. I work hard for what I have and what I have become in life. I come from a very poor and humble family and have had to fight for every inch. I do not believe in hand outs, I did it all on my own. I vote republican because I think that socialism is just communism in disguise (and not a good one, either) and that communism is the opposite of what this country was founded on. I vote republican because I believe that terrorists want to kill us and that we must be proactive in our defense, no reactive. I vote republican because I believe that the national government should be smaller and that it should be answerable to the states, as did our founding fathers. I vote republican because I believe that God controlling evolution is just as viable an explanation for how life came to be as Darwynism, if not more. If you want more please let me know.
2007-08-18 21:54:50
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answered by Anonymous
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The rich and wealthy pay the taxes in this country. The ordinary Joe, who wants to be treated with dignity and respect will vote republican. Liberalism proposes to "take care" of the little guy, when all that results is that the citizenry becomes more dependent on the government and less industrious, less passionate, less enthusiastic, but more hopeless, more poverty stricken, and full of despair. Name the government program that supposes to lift the people, that has not generated more problems than it's solved. All that government has been able to do is deliver the substandard in most areas it insists upon inserting itself.
2007-08-18 21:58:00
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answered by fruitypebbles 4
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You could call us the average Joe. Husband and I totally disagree with the liberal ideology. I'm a stay at home mom. Hubby is the only income but we seeing more and more that we are taxed the snot out of by dems.
I hate seeing people become dependent on anything outside of Christ. Illegal drugs, video games, gambling and oh yes, government are crippling for anyone trying to function in this society.
2007-08-19 00:04:03
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answered by egg_sammash 5
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Start your own business and you'll figure it out. And being self-employed and owning a business doesn't mean you are rich. So as long as Democrats see the world as social strife between the rich and poor, they nine times out of ten will lose my vote. The Democratic has become the party of anti-business, including small business. How can they know what is best for me and my business from Washington? At least the Republicans sort of stay out of my business. Well, sometimes. And I don't just mean business, but personal life. If you think the Democrats aren't intrusive in your personal life, you are kidding yourself.
2007-08-18 22:12:10
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answered by robling_dwrdesign 5
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Well, this may send terrible to you, but some people actually want to make there own life, and not have the government give us hand outs and take care of us. Some people enjoy being independent and not reliant on an all powerful government. Then there are the moral conservatives who I suppose want a more morally sound society (don't really know though, because I am not one). Then there are people who want to protect the United States.
2007-08-18 22:04:45
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answered by asmith1022_2006 5
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I vote Republican most of the time because I am a conservative and do not believe in liberal values. Do you really want an answer from a real non-rich American or do you just want to hear from people who slam them?
2007-08-18 22:06:00
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answered by Anonymous
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economic opportunity and freedom
high tax rates do not take wealth away from the rich .. be definition, they already are rich.
what high tax rates do is prevent most of the upwardly mobile from ever becoming rich. so they stay on the upper middle class treadmill, working forever or until they have a heart attack.
most folk who become rich do not start a business that is fabulously successful like Bill Gates, nor are they the very well paid lawyers and CEOs who can save their way to wealth.
most are ordinary middle class folk who invest, invest, invest in busineses, properties, and stocks. they make a profit on an investment and turn around and invest it all. over and over. they build their way to wealth one step at a time.
high tax rates prevent them from doing this because they tax the profit every time they take a step. [by contrast, Bill Gates paid no taxes for years on most of his net increase in wealth because he hadn't sold many of his MicroSoft shares -- no sale means no profit means no taxes -- yet.]
high tax rates also depress stock market values, which harm pensions and retirement assets belonging to the middle class, and drive companies to move out of the US.
so what we want is freedom from these money spending boondoggle programs the Dems like to foist off on the country and keep taxes low so we too have a chance at retiring rich.
I'm personally sitting on a few hundred thousand in profits now from deals i've already been in for years. If the Dems raise taxes on me before I can sell out, it's going to cost me over 100k in added taxes and that's money right out of my retirement. It isn't as if I make profits like this every year .. in fact, never previously have I been this close to this much.
That's why. opportunity.
2007-08-18 21:57:24
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answered by Spock (rhp) 7
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Republicans believe in equal opportunity based on merit rather than personal decisions or race or gender. So, for me it means, that all things being equal, I have the opportunity to succeed if I choose to. I like that idea better than the idea that because I am not a minority, I do not get grants for college, I do not get preferential hiring, I do not get tax credits, basically, because of my race I am treated differently. I don't like that, it's not fair.
Plus I think the democrats pander to special interest groups rather than pander to logic.
fruitypebbles rock mmmmmmmmmm
2007-08-18 21:57:38
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answered by eldude 5
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