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Originally Posted by Willravel
Because if you've already taken over one party in a two-party system, it follows that you would attempt to also take over the second. Many Democrats are just as corporatist as the Republicans, but the Democrats simply haven't been taken over as much. The GOP works essentially as one to support corporate power (with like one or two exceptions), but the Democrats go back and fourth on it.
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I think you underestimate big corporate influence with Democrats. For example think back to the BP oil spill and Mary Landrieu, Senator from Louisiana. She became (or always was) a big advocate for big oil going against the party line. They know who butters their bread - in both parties. However, the Tea Party arose as a protest against business as usual in Washington. I suggest you get more involved, you may be surprised that you have a lot in common with Tea Party folks.
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A flat tax favors the rich, which includes big corporations.
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A flat tax can be structured in many ways - but what it does is evens the playing field. GE can pay zero federal corporate income tax with an army of lawyers and accountants, it is the small business person who pays the top rate, including self-employment taxes. Again, I suggest getting out of the theory and actually find-out how small business owners are treated in our tax code.
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I'm assuming you would have allowed GM to fail, which I agree with, but what would you have done with the financial institutions and health care insurers?
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Weak financial institution will fail, the strong will go on. Bailingout those who made bad decisions, encourages more and more bad decisions. There has to be a consequence for failure.
Health care gets the benefit of raising rates in anticipation of Obama-care and they are protected against inter-state competition. I simply say open the market, make it fair for the consumer. Or go all the way with a single payer system. Obama-care is a mess of a compromise. It solved nothing. However health-care insurers are able to raise rates and will get more people to insure without competition. In some states the average person may only have one or two choices for coverage - it is a joke.