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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a house full of Democrats, spouse is a D, and I'm the lone wolf at family events. However I "left" Democrat party in HS, when I started reading Hayek, Mises and I've never looked back. Socially I agree with a bunch of Demcrat issues i.e. the govt shouldn't define marriage but since 1996 I've voted for every single Republican presidential candidate. [/quote]
Responding to PP rather than thread question (since I'm a Dem):

I don't agree with the libertarian viewpoint, but I can understand and respect it.  What I don't understand is how you reconcile with the social agenda the GOP has adopted.  Am I right that you don't, but figure that the financial issues are important enough to swallow the social stuff[/quote]

Totally dead right on.

And fiscal policies can have immediate impacts on us - like my taxes.  Can I really afford $700/month more in taxes living paycheck to paycheck?  No - for example.  So I would cut the budget and keep taxes low.

But EVEN IF I agreed with spending a few trillion for a good cause (like Obama thought with his stimuli packages that were jokes), I would pick a good cause.  I mean, who got all that stimulus money anyway - wasn't it like $100,000 per taxpayer?  I'd rather have that in my pocket.  Or cure cancer.  Or AIDS.  Or how about this - provide FREE health insurance coverage to the needy.

You see, I do want to help the underdog, and to be very frank with you, I think that all democrats campaign by making themselves out to be the champion for the underdog and needy but never actually do much to help anybody and actually often end up making poor people worse off (at the federal level - state level, another story).  For instance, with the Obamacare - if you're poor - too bad - buy health insurance or else pay a $750 - $2000 tax penalty and get no insurance anyway.  That's outright cruel.  That doesn't help anybody just like raising their income taxes does not.  So really, most Republicans want to help the poor just as much as Democrats do - they just don't get all the good PR about it (they need some new PR firm to get in there and spread the word).[/quote]

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