I tend to cross party lines a lot. However, I generally agree with Republicans more, and positively detest Clinton, who was more than usually dishonest in office.
My views tend to be socially conservative, and somewhat fiscally conservative with a few exceptions.
I may be a new breed: a fiscally middle classer. I personally believe in high taxes for the richest (say, 75% for the amount above $2 million) and lower taxes for the middle classes. As for low income, I believe in less welfare, and frankly don't see any problem with "workfare" programs. (I saw an article where a woman said it was insulting and demeaning to be required to do volunteer work as a condition for assisted housing. huh?!?! :wacko: Insulting that you don't get something for nothing?! No wonder you don't have a job, you #$@#$#@%!!) I am also interested in reducing the complexity of the tax code, and am very interested in the prospect of a national sales tax to replace all or part of the income tax, thus eliminating or greatly minimizing the IRS.
As for rights, I am for individual rights such as owning my guns, letting other people who live far from me have their cigarettes, but also for individual privacy, a view at odds with Rumsfeld and crew.
People asked what rights the present administration is attacking. It's attacking the right to privacy and more than one constitutional right. (For you conservatives out there, If we give up those amendments, we will soon give up the 2nd.) The Patriot Act removes many constitutional protections concerning privacy, but is limited largely in its application to only foreign citizens. The Patriot Act II, admittedly a draft not meant for public viewing (it was a position paper, and may have represented an extremist position) removes the distinction of foreign citizen, thus allowing US citizens to be monitored via phonetaps and cameras in their own home without their knowledge based only on a view by the investigating officer that a National Security threat is somehow involved, not even that the person has committed a crime! Unsuccessful wiretaps can be placed and removed, with the records kept, without the subject ever being informed! All based on ONE PERSON'S decision, not that the individual has committed a crime, but they may in some way eventually receive information concerning a national security issue! Know anyone from a foreign country? Anyone who visited one? You may be the next contestant on "Where did my rights go?"! That is only one aspect of the rights being trampled. Presently, for a specified period after a terrorist attack (not specifically designed, how do you define that), people of interest may be detained WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF ANY0ONE BUT ONE LAWYER for a period of up to 90 days! So if you have a family member and they disappear with no trace, maybe the are a guest at Club Fed!
I personally would rather live with an increased danger of terrorist incidents in a free country than lose the aspects that make the US great.
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