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Originally Posted by divagrrrl
and I need fair answers from BOTH sides of the fence.
Which of our two main candidates is a better friend to small business? I am a Massage Therapist, paid as an independent contractor. I gross about $28,000, take about $12,000 in write-offs, leaving me with about $16,000 to live on each year. Of this, the IRS wants to take about $3500 on average, leaving me to live on $1050 a month, in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, mind you, one of the most expensive places in the country. Most APARTMENTS rent for $850-1000 a month.
I carry my own insurance. I rent an apartment (a very small one). I pay my bills. And I qualify for several social programs, but feel I am too prideful to suck off the government tit. I am going broker and broker.... who is going to be my ideal president? I am so sick of candidates talking about what's wrong and not telling their solutions to make it right. WHO is going to better MY life in office? Or at least not make it worse?
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how about from some of us who are trying to dismantle the "fence" ?
Since you are in SoCal, you have the distinguished capability to do what other people in this nation only dream about--vote your conscious without negative repurcussions.
One of Ralph Nader's positions is to stop government waste. I believe he argues the same as I do: that military spending is one huge boondoggle for the military industrial complex to the detriment of our nation's fiscal sanity. Only by reducing expenditure can your tax burden be reduced.
Bush has been pumping the economy up with money he doesn't have. Our debt stretches into the horizon. You and I will have to pay that debt down while simultaneously servicing it. We, as well as our children, will have to pay the principal and the interest someday.
Kerry has a lot of plans, but I haven't seen how he plans on balancing the budget in detail. He has joined forces to do it before, however, and I don't doubt he will team up with the Congress and do it again. But I don't see him cutting the hugely wasteful expenditures that persistently hang around the Capitol--like a raunchy fart.
So vote Nader if you value your fiscal sanity, environment, and anti-corporatism (being small business, this may interest you immensly).
Someone else hopefully will step in and speal you on Badnarik, because I suspect he purports to end government waste, too. But I don't know enough about his platform to give you a fair synopsis of it.