As usual, you are misstating the arguments so you can defeat your straw man.
1. Increasing the tax on "the rich" is a dodge to avoid reducing spending and controlling costs. Do we really need 56 different Federal Programs to teach Americans good money management? A little like Micheal Moore teaching diet planning, is it not?
2. Virtually every job in America.
3. Not jobs, wealth. Any government job is drain on the public treasure. Any private Sector job feeds the public treasure through taxation.
4. Shrinking government to a point of rationality is good for the whole. Do we really need 200 military bases on foreign soil?
5. I could not care less about who is marrying whom or if they are same or different gender. If you oppose gay sex, you should favor same sex marriage as the sex soon ends and the couple is soon not a practicing gay sex couple anymore. problem solved.
6. You oppose the First Amendment?
I choose that we increase the tax on the rich; you choose to increase the misery of the poor.
2. Baloney. Anyone who walks down Main St. knows that the myraid of small business are owned by individuals, businesses which don't pick up and move overseas.
3. More baloney. You're simply parroting right wing dogma. A government office building supports local business and is good for communities. Take a walk around a Federal Office building and count the restaurants, parking gargages, book stores, dry cleaners, office supply businesses, banks, notories, attorney's, etc. etc.
4. Nope, we don't need 200 military bases in foregin nations, only the neo-cons support such a policy.
5. Good for you, callous conservatvies and social conservatives don't support liberty and freedom for all.
6. I oppose Citizens United v. FEC; suggesting that means I don't support the first amendment freedom is absurd. Do you support human or animal sacrifice as a right guaranteed by the first amendment?
You have to understand their absurd mindset.
"The poor are poor because they chose to be."
Never mind that even if everyone filled every job we would still have some of the highest unemployment in history.
That is not the mindset of most.
I have run numerous businesses and have hired and fired folks. Some of them were poor. Most were poor because they couldn't meet the minimum requirements of employment like showing up and working once they arrived.
Is not showing up and not following the instructions of supervision a choice to be poor? I don't care. Is it a choice to be rich. I got this one. No, it's not. The opportunity is there. Opportunity is patient. It knocks and it waits. All you need to do is open the door.
If there is a poor guy, I don't care if he has made the choice to be poor or not. His motivations are absolutely unimportant to me. If I am an employer, all I care about is that he do his job and not create problems through incompetence or dereliction.
Why does it consume you what others think? The solution is not changing a paradigm, the solution is creating an environment in which the job creators create jobs.
Incidentally, though, I do know a guy who has made the conscious choice to be poor. Law degree, pretty wife and he volunteers for a cause that he believes in to the exclusion of the pursuit of what could be a very lucrative career. Choosing to be poor is not a bad thing or a thing that invites shame. My friend, priests around the world, couples who live on one income to raise kids with a stay-at-home Mom; These are choices made with pride and with forethought.
Being poor is not a thing of shame. Blaming others for your situation is a thing to be ashamed of. Grow a pair and get to work.