Researchers Think They Know Why College-Educated People Support The Tea Party
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Don't forget the leftwing media!
Lol Dhohhi , no good asking you to teach Ricter how to spell.
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LePage administration orders new work requirement for welfare
http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/loc...rs-new-work-requirement-for-welfare/13067853/
wow... its amazing how newsworthy and unusual it is to see common sense exercised by govt.
If the state helps them to actually find jobs, great.
Let's walk through these points and take a look at what the Tea Party dominated state legislature actually did in North Carolina vs. these alleged goals.
1. Eliminate Excessive Taxes
The Tea Party Legislature in North Carolina increased the sales tax, applied the sales tax to food & services plus my Amazon purchases, added & increased all sorts of fees (e.g. the new state level cable bill tax)... while reducing the income tax rate for high earners, and tax on investment & inheritance income. The net effect the tax burden in our state has decreased for the top 10% and increased for the bottom 90%.
2. Eliminate the National Debt
The state is required to have a balanced budget. However the failed tea party / ALEC budget has created a $455M deficit due to reduced revenue intake associated with their failed taxation policy in point 1 above.
3. Eliminate Deficit Spending
The tea party legislature has been raiding all the pools of rainy day funds to fund the budget shortfall. This is effectively deficit spending when it involves robbing school construction funds, retiree plans, legal funds, etc. to fund the gap in their budget.
4. Protect Free Markets
Amusing. With direct legislation - the state tea party has directly put policies in place to punish individual local businesses that they do not support while passing polices to aid businesses owned by their relatives.
5. Abide by the Constitution of the United States
The North Carolina state constitution would be a more appropriate document to assess for the state tea party. The tea party legislature is being sued by a group of conservative retired judges for violating the state constitution with the policies passed by the legislature - not just one constitutional suit but many. How many times do you need to be told that is against the state constitution before it sinks into your thick heads.
6. Promote Civic Responsibility
If the new definition of "Civic Responsibility" means stealing more quicker than the state Democrats were ever able to do - then maybe they "Promote Civic Responsibility".
7. Reduce the Overall Size of Government
Ha. ROTFL. While the tea party government has fired government employees, they have moved many functions to contractors. The total number of government employees plus contractors has greatly increased in the state. The total amount of money spent on employee & government contractor compensation has greatly gone up. This is what happens when you hire all your family & friends as contractors at $300 per hour on tax payers money, and privatize government functions to companies run by your relatives in no-bid contracts.
8. Believe in the People
With the lowest favorable ratings of the state legislature in North Carolina in the history of our state (a mere 18%) - this has become "believe that the people will vote you out in time despite the gerrymandered districts".
9. Avoid the Pitfalls of Politics
The most divisive legislature in state history. Crowds of people (including Republicans now) protesting in downtown Raleigh every week. Refusing debate on bills not favored by ALEC, and many other problems. Hard to see how this is "Avoiding the Pitfalls of Politics."
10. Maintain Local Independence
The most amusing of all. The tea party legislature regularly overrides local policies. The most recent example was the City of Boone refused to provide a tea party backer the right to build a large hotel in a local zoning decision. Over 90% of people in Boone oppose the proposed hotel. The state legislature stripped the City of Boone of ETJ zoning authority to allow the hotel building to proceed (which of course violates the state constitution - see point 5 above).
Our state level tea party is starting to have a disquieting resemblance to ISIS.
But this reminds me of a passage from Will and Ariel Durant's The Lessons of History:
"Nor does human nature alter as between classes: by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them. Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they were accustomed to condemn in the forces they deposed."