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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">mr.brett</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">BobDesperado</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">mr.brett</strong> said:</div><div>Anyway, my point was that I don't think a bigger government that redistributes wealth will accomplish what we want.</div></blockquote>
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	So you're under the impression that conservatives made the government smaller and didn't redistribute wealth upwards to the wealthy?<br />
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	Really?</div></blockquote>
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	Did I say that?</div></blockquote>
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	I couldn't tell for sure.  That's why I asked.<br />
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	By the way, referring to your earlier comment - the conservative method of income redistribution hasn't involved taking money away from the rich and giving it back to the rich.  It has involved squeezing and diminishing the middle class and shifting the wealth of that class to the rich.<br />
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	It's sort of the inevitable consequence that follows when Warren Buffett's secretary pays a higher percentage of her income in tax than he does.  Again, as discussed elsewhere.  <br />
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	You repeat nostrums about markets and "bigger governments" as though they're eternal truths.  It just seems to me that you're not doing much (or any) real thinking about what is basically propaganda.<br />
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	Oh, and this:  "I think libertarians and conservatives bring worthwhile arguments to the table (small government, greater liberty) that's a healthy part of the national discourse. "<br />
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	Since they don't really do anything to advance those "arguments" - which aren't arguments at all - I'm not seeing what's so healthy about it.  I see them doing a lot of yipping against gay marriage and in favor of expanding our prison population.  These things have nothing to do with small government or greater liberty and never will.

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