I'd agree with much of that. Do you thin they could maintain their "purity" if they were a real contender with equal funding? I don't...parties are forced to pander to their funders.
What we REALLY need is campaign finance reform...I think. It sounds good. In practice...I'm not sure. Changes are usually made in the hopes of improvement. Do they usually improve anything?
They can retain their purity if they likewise take money away from everyone else, changing the nature of the process. CFR would be great.
As for change - I disagree, Change usually comes in thruning away from one party in favor of anohter...yeah there may be hope for improvement but a student of histroy knows it is horseshit.
Go back and look at your orignal question. I answered it twice and you've just answered it again referrencing the Reagan (GOP) tax cuts of the mid-eighties. A tax cut is by definition a reduction in the size of govt.
Please note that Bush is creating a new bill to allow tech companies to sell their stuff to ANY country with moola.
Also, the creation of the homeland dept does nothing to address the inefficiency of the FBI, Cia, or other agencies in charge of intelligence/protection of this country. NOTHING.
Explain the reduction part, and the increase in budget costs for this department.
What part of CUT do you not understand? If you reduce the amount of money the govt takes in, you are restricting the resources and influence the govt had before the cut. In an abstract sense this is quite clear, and no, I'm not going to run off and find some link for you to back that up. It's plain arithmetic.
Sorry, but the Libertarian party is at variance with a lot of those issues. My instinct so far is that the Greens offer the best match to my personal political/social ethics.
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Sorry, but the Libertarian party is at variance with a lot of those issues. My instinct so far is that the Greens offer the best match to my personal political/social ethics.
Every vote for the Green Party hurts EVERY party that isn't the Green Party. People act like Greens and Democrats are interchangeable, and we're not--we oppose Democrats. So to believe that Greens are "taking votes away" from Democrats is only half-right; every vote for a Green is a vote that neither the Dems NOR Repubs will get. As it should be.
The Democrats and Republicans are not entitled to one single vote. They have to EARN every vote they want, and they haven't earned mine.
Which party did Ralph Nadar run under? From what I've read and seen of him, I like that guy. He seems like a genuinely decent person who wants to help people.
Which party did Ralph Nadar run under? From what I've read and seen of him, I like that guy. He seems like a genuinely decent person who wants to help people.
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