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The right is and always has been based on less government and more personal responsibility. I make the choices that are best for me and my family. I sure as hell don't need to government involved in determining and operating health care. As a veteran, I am VERY familiar with how they run the VA. If you want an American example of why socialized medicine is a joke, look no further than the VA.
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I believe that rank and file republicans believe in less government...I just don't see it out of elected republicans.
When we have a financial crisis, instead of letting bankruptcy handle it (and that would basically mean the debtors take over most businesses instead of the shareholders), they bail out companies with big government money. If the let the airlines go under, all the assets will be owned by the debtors, the best way for them to recoup their money is to reform the business as an airline...so in the end, few jobs are lost, so why do we bail out shareholders.
Abortion...why do we have government involved at all...to me it should be between the woman and her God...Plus if you cede the power to the government to determine if a pregnancy is taken to term, you also allow that government the power to terminate any pregnancy in the future...i don't like government having that kind of power.
Military spending...you would think smaller government would look for ways to reduce our spending and get as efficient as possible, but no they throw money at the Military where we have lost Trillions of dollars that aren't accounted for.
Gay rights...why would a small government person care if two gay people get married...I think that the government shouldn't even be involved in marriage other than to deal with the contract aspect of it...that to me is small government.
I could go on...I do think that rank and file republicans are good decent people that generally want small government, but they sure don't seem to elect Republicans that follow through once they are elected.
I actually would vote for a republican that was truly small government and looked for ways to be more efficient. I for the concept of Negative income tax as a replacement for most our welfare programs (similar to a UBI). I think we can find efficiencies in our government but neither party when in power ever tries to reign it in...they only complain when they don't have power. If Biden gets elected, elected republicans will make the Debt an issue again....but not much is said about it now. Social issues, I would love to hear a republican say they just don't care what people do and the state will only be involved if it involves some sort of contract.
The right is and always has been based on less government and more personal responsibility. I make the choices that are best for me and my family. I sure as hell don't need to government involved in determining and operating health care. As a veteran, I am VERY familiar with how they run the VA. If you want an American example of why socialized medicine is a joke, look no further than the VA.
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I believe that rank and file republicans believe in less government...I just don't see it out of elected republicans.
When we have a financial crisis, instead of letting bankruptcy handle it (and that would basically mean the debtors take over most businesses instead of the shareholders), they bail out companies with big government money. If the let the airlines go under, all the assets will be owned by the debtors, the best way for them to recoup their money is to reform the business as an airline...so in the end, few jobs are lost, so why do we bail out shareholders.
Abortion...why do we have government involved at all...to me it should be between the woman and her God...Plus if you cede the power to the government to determine if a pregnancy is taken to term, you also allow that government the power to terminate any pregnancy in the future...i don't like government having that kind of power.
Military spending...you would think smaller government would look for ways to reduce our spending and get as efficient as possible, but no they throw money at the Military where we have lost Trillions of dollars that aren't accounted for.
Gay rights...why would a small government person care if two gay people get married...I think that the government shouldn't even be involved in marriage other than to deal with the contract aspect of it...that to me is small government.
I could go on...I do think that rank and file republicans are good decent people that generally want small government, but they sure don't seem to elect Republicans that follow through once they are elected.
I actually would vote for a republican that was truly small government and looked for ways to be more efficient. I for the concept of Negative income tax as a replacement for most our welfare programs (similar to a UBI). I think we can find efficiencies in our government but neither party when in power ever tries to reign it in...they only complain when they don't have power. If Biden gets elected, elected republicans will make the Debt an issue again....but not much is said about it now. Social issues, I would love to hear a republican say they just don't care what people do and the state will only be involved if it involves some sort of contract.