According to a new poll from Rasmussen, almost two-thirds of the American people want smaller government and lower taxes while only one-fourth want bigger government and higher taxes. Not surprisingly, the moochers and looters of the governing elite are wildly out of touch with the American people, with 70 percent of the political class favoring an increased burden of government while 78 percent of ordinary Americans want more freedom.
Most voters (65%) say they prefer a government with fewer services and lower taxes rather than one with more services and higher taxes. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that only 25% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a government with more services and higher taxes instead. …As is often the case, there is a noticeable divide between the Political Class and Mainstream voters: 70% of the Political Class supports more services and higher taxes, while 78% of Mainstream voters prefer fewer services and lower taxes.
CORRECTION: Democracies do not fight wars AMONG THEMSELVES. In wars there is always a NON democracy involved. R.J. Rummel explains it here http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MIRACLE.HTM
In Switzerland, as far as I know, there are no prison penalties for tax evasion i.e. there are no prison penalties for not telling the government all that you earn. There may be prison penalties for tax fraud which I understand as stealing government tax money that you collected, a very different matter.
Typical! Often the true “class warfare” is between the political class and the people. That Rasmussen poll shows how the political class, against the will of the people, gives itself humongous opressive power and control over the people and takes gigantic amounts money from the people against the peoples majority will. And usually the political class is one of the must distrusted classes in a society, I know several polls that show that.
In Switzerland the people has REAL power to limit the power of the political class since an enormous amount of legislation can be rejected by popular vote, in referendum. In Switzerland, for instance, there are no prison penalties for tax evasion, in the USA you can go to prison.
France and Germany, where the political class gave itself HUMONGOUS power over the people, are tax hells, while Switzerland, where the people has REAL power, is a TAX HAVEN. And, of course, Switzerland -along with the USA- is often demonized as a tax haven in mainstrean media while in fact Switzerland may be the only regime where the people -and not ONLY the political class- can actually legislate.
While in Germany TENS millions were killed by governments in the last 200 years, in Switzerand hardly anyone was murdered by government (in these statistics I do not count deaths in combat, only non combatants murdered by governments).
Democracy has been ABSOLUTELY MIRACULOUS in eliminating MURDERS BY GOVERNMENTS and reducing wars!. Democracies do not fight wars! R. J. Rummel showed that in his website http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MIRACLE.HTM
Loving your family members is “politically incorrect” because EXTREME socialism -COMMUNISM and National SOCIALISM- needs murderous automats that can kill without pity and than can die without caring much about the horrible pain their death will inflict on their families.
It is not surprising that “Socialism, Fatherland or Death” (Socialismo, Patria o Muerte) is a favorite motto among latin american socialist dictators.