This conservative's responsibility in this presidential election

I am tired and frustrated with the failure of our Party to confront the growing power of the "taxing" class. The class in our electorate that benefits directly or indirectly from raising taxes. Let's face it, their numbers are legion and growing exponentially to a point where their power is irresistible to any elected public official, even with the best of intentions.

It is no surprise to me that the "taxing" class has developed over the years a foolproof -- well, almost foolproof -- method of raising our taxes without our consent or knowledge.

Conservatives have just witnessed the complete sale out of our economic values over the last eight years, and now we are told, it's the Progressive Republican candidate, John McCain, who will get the job done, if we only get aboard his bandwagon as good Republicans. I am sorry, I cannot honorably follow this advise. I intend to support fiscally conservative candidates for Congress and my state and local offices. But I will no longer go to the polls to vote for  "Republicans" who will sell out to the taxing class as soon as they obtain office.

I am not really convinced we even have a viably democracy at this time. The power to generate more and more funding to fund the growing taxing class, even when we haven't consented to being taxed, has taken our sovereignty from the people, is putting our Republic at risk of being just an illusion.

ex animo

davidfarrar

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please define

Who is the "taxing class?"

  • the legislators who write the bills?
  • the lobbyists who write the bills for them?
  • government contractors (Halliburton, Blackwater, etc.) who profit from them?
  • beneficiaries of government programs (while food stamp recipients generally come to mind first among conservatives, what about Archer Daniels Midland and other wealthy corporations that benefit from farm subsidies?)

You might want to dig into this and see just how much money goes to those who pull their votes from the Republican side of the fence. It is staggering. As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

 The most urgent need is for the Republican Party to clean house, and look seriously at what Stewart Brand referred to as its "Talk/do ratio."