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Originally posted by sgtclub
We should be discussing both and then some. Kerry will spend at least as much and more likely more than Bush and will raise taxes to do it. My guess is that the deficits under Kerry will be about equal to Bush's current, but who the hell knows. In any event, big spending + hire taxes = liberal. Math is hard, but that equation is easy.
I brought up the other items because he I think they make him a liberal as well. This will sound trite and is an over simplification, but anyone who believes that government is better suited to solve an individuals problems than the individual is a liberal.
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I think this is wrong. Wrong because the Republican party, under Bush, is so captive to corporate interests that the government is not going to stop flowing. Republicans are less interested in using money to solve social problems, but that's only part of the picture. And it's wrong because Kerry and a GOP Congress will balance each other, whereas Bush and a GOP Congress will be a massive porkathon (again). Kerry is not running for Tom DeLay's job. He's running to be President.
To borrow from Posner, the question is not whether government is best suited to solve an individual's problems, but whether free markets will function well, or whether there's some sort of market failure calling for government intervention.
