The tax code is not the only symptom of what ails the country. Conservatives/Classical Liberals are mostly students of history and know that you can't pluck out a few short years of history and hold them up as defnitive any more than you can pluck one verse out of the Bible and hold it up as all that JudeoChristianity is.
Take Jesus out of this. Last time I checked The Bible doesn't put forth Jesus Christ's 13 Steps To Fiscal Awesomeness.
As for "picking a few years" how about we go with about three decades, from the start of the New Deal/FDR's clean-up to about the mid 1970s when shit started going tits-up. Then in comes Reaganomics, and the middle class NEVER recovered. In fact, it's been on a slow and steady decline.
And if it's not just about the tax code, why the **** do you guys care so much about taxes? Why did every politician on your side sign Norquist's borderline unconstitutional pledge?
We can define modern American conservativm aka Classical Liberalism and embrace the principles embodied within it. Most liberals won't even admit such a thing existed, can't define it, won't look it up. You have to look at history over at least three centuries to understand Classical Liberalism/Conservatism. And you have to look at the effect of policy over the long haul to understand how modern American liberalism bears no resemblance to Classical liberalism.
PLEASE SHUT THE **** UP ABOUT CLASSICAL LIBERALISM. It's a dead ******* movement, replaced by Conservatism. You need to give it up. It's a pretty lame attempt to try and make Liberals look like the ones who haven't historically pushed for societal progress.
Yesterday you made some CRAZY claims that the founders were Conservatives, which other than not wanting black folks to be considered humans, they weren't; at all. You're positing bullshit as fact. And again: CLASSICAL LIBERALISM IS ******* DEAD. Your side killed it. You aren't going to resurrect it like Lazarus.
In the case of modern American liberalism, you have to go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt and come forward to see how the snowball started small but has gradually gained momentum, size, and mass until it is now mowing down everything in its paths to the detriment of everybody. The nation now teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, the result of roughly 80 years of modern American liberalism, and the liberals won't or can't see it/.
Holy goddamned ****.
it's easy to be bankrupt when the source of your revenue/income has been forcibly reduced over 30+ years of failed economic policy. You're becoming BARELY worth debating with because of how ******* brainwashed you are. You sound like a robot. The snowball didn't start with Teddy you prat. Things were GREAT for a long time after FDR. You can't ******* spin that. Data shows it.
You know what another word for data is: Fact. Truth. Shit you can't spin.
We don't ask that you liberals understand, appreciate, or embrace modern day American conservatism/Dlassical Liberalism. We understand that you think we are delusional, evil, hateful, wrong, stupid or insert the uncomplimentary adjective of your choice.
Delusional? Yes.
Evil? Only some of you.
Hateful? Only if you're gay or not a Christian.
Wrong? Most definitely.
Stupid? I choose "deliberately ignorant" for most of you, though stupid definitely works for people trained to vote FOR killing the middle class
We aren't asking you to read, study, learn, or understand anything that doesn't fit with your indoctrination as liberals. We are allowing you all the liberal concepts, ideas, notions, and policy that you want.
We just want you to have it away from us so that we can restore our great nation to the original concepts that the Founders gave us.
Yeah, the guy below wanted to create two separate countries before. Didn't work out too well.
(I can just HEAR the Tea Baggers jerking off to that picture)
So again, this thread, your dumb joke behind it, it's all bullshit propaganda. "WE ARE MORALLY SUPERIOR SO LEAVE THE HEATHENS TO THEIR BROKEN LAND."
Who needs compromise when you have rhetoric, right?