kakki wrote:
Business execs democrats? Big business PACs invariably give the lions share of their campaign contributions and support to the Republicans... there are some execptions, particularly in media, but business overall is definitely very pro-republican. A good point is made about more democratic politicans being richer as individuals than republicans, but it has to also be considered that the republicans raise a lot more money than the democrats do, so to get elec ted, democratic politicans often are forced to rely upon their own personal fortunes...
Yikes - The richest people in America according to the yearly lists >that I read in Forbes and Vanity Fair are overwhelmingly Democrats. >99% of all ofthe media and business and entertainment moguls and >artists listed are. So where do I find the list of the rich >Republicans? Are the far richer Democrats exempt from blame because of >their political party? Or are they exempt as long as they give money >to the Democrat party?
Kakki
Regardless, any political party whose cornerstone economic policy is to cut the tax burden of the upper tax bracket, that rages against the estate tax (only 2% of esttes left behind are eligible for the estate tax) above all other economic policies, and that fights against any and all social spending, no matter how modest the budget for the proposals are... well, that party certainly SEEMS to be catering to the rich...
Not to say that your Clinton style Democrats could hardly be labeled as Populist, or pro-middle/low class, but one would have to admit that the Republican party certainly champions the above values more strongly than the Democratic party does...
--Jerry Schirmer
"We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement"
-George Eliot
Middlemarch, Chapter LXXIX
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