--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > In the US, these costs ("emergency" > > > health care for the uninsured) are absorbed by > > > individual state and local governments, which then > > > have to raise *their* taxes, resulting in a higher > > > and higher *total* tax bill to the taxpayer. The > > > illusion of lower Federal taxes becomes just that. > > > > authfriend wrote: > > > > the situation is different in each state as > > to how much taxes are raised for what and on whom, > > whereas the federal situation is more uniform, so > > the resistance is more unified. > > Given our forum here, let me try out a "consciousness- > based" perspective. > > The liberal point of view is that we're all one, or at > least we're all connected, so let's take care of those > who need help. That's the perspective that causes > federal tax revenues from well-to-do, Democrat-voting > blue states to be redistributed among poor, Republican- > voting red states. > > The conservative point of view is, each individual must > be responsible for himself or herself, and smaller groups > of self-government are more efficient that large groups. > Hence, here in New Hampshire, for example, the individual > towns reign supreme. There's no state money for education > or aid for the destitute. Each town is responsible for its own > problems. As a result, the smaller, poorer towns have big > problems. > > To me, both viewpoints have virtue. Trying to reconcile > the two is like trying to determine a particle's position > and velocity. You can't do both. > > That said, I wonder how much one's level of consciousness > enters into one's political leanings. That would make an > interesting research project for some institution that studies > growth of consciousness and tries to relate it to social > trends. Know of any such place?
There's been studies published on the thinking/reasoning processes of conservatives vs liberals. The liberals like the results. The conservatives mock them. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
