what is laissez faire and why would more government help be against it?
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Laissez faire is non-intrusive, non-meddlesing supervision of government institutions.
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More people will milk the system...I have generations of welfare recipients...I think job opportunity and economic equality is more reasonable....but when do governments reason....lol
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Many people have pointed out that the Neo-Cons advocate policies that create a large deficit for the Federal government.  These policies are seen as being at odds with the long time conservative crusade for balanced budgets.\n\nThe common answer for this is the "Starve the Beast" strategy advocated by Grover Noruist president of Americans for Tax Reform.  This is a strategy of using large budget deficits to force cuts in the size of the government programs.  This would help create the smaller government which conservative ideology advocates.\n\nCurrently most evidence points to this strategy as being counterproductive and harmful to the economy.
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The left and right ends of the political spectrum discribe people's basic philosopy of government.  \n\nMost people think of Democrats of being left center and liberals comfortably in the left and Socialists at the extreme left.  \n\nOn the right side, Republicans would be near the center, Conservatives comfortable in the right and libetarians at the far right.\n\nThe right tends to favor policies in which the role of the government is extremely limited, especially when it comes to promoting the general welfare of the populous, but at the same time spending adequate resouces for the common defense of the nation such as the military and the enforcement of international trade agreements.  Some issues that the Right traditionally cares about are:\n\n*  Minimize Taxes\n*  Minimize Social Welfare Programs (Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare)\n*  Minimize Regulations on Business and Individuals\n*  Elimination of Wealth Redistribution policies such as Progressive Taxation, Asset Based Taxation, and Taxation on Income gained through investment or inheritance.\n*  Minimize ability of citizens to sue the government or corporations, or other individuals based on laws designed to protect the environment, consumers, workers, women, minorities, etc....\n\nRecently, the Right has embraced other non traditional issues such as:\n\n* Increased government regulation of Abortion\n* Increased government regulation of End of Life decisions\n* Increased government regulation of Drug Usage\n* Increased Government funding of Christian religious groups, symbols and priorities.\n* Increased Government regulation of sexual pratices, indecent speech, homosexuality and unpatriotic behavior.\n* Decreased regulation of weapon ownership.\n* Support for public execution of certain criminals. \n* Reduction of constitutional gaurantees for accused criminals (Victims Rights)\n\nThe left tends to favor a stronger government with policies which benefit the general population at the expense of those in positions of power.  People on the left tend to believe that the government's primary function is to provide for the general welfare of its citizens paid for by taxing the populous.  Some issues that the left traditionally cares about are:  \n\n*  Generous funding of Social Programs (Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare)\n*  A progressive tax system which taxes wealthy individuals at a higher rate and taxes income earned by means other than work (Profits, Investment, Inheritence) higher than work income.\n*  Increased government regulation of employers, polluters, manufacturers, and individuals in the interests of protecting the populous\n*  Protecting Certain Freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, right to privacy, voting rights, rights of the accused, etc....\n\nRecently, the Left has embraced other non traditional issues such as:\n\n*  Legalization of Abortion\n*  Affirmative Action\n*  Increased regulation of weapon Ownership\n*  Less strict Immigration laws\n*  Opposition of certain wars\n*  Separation of Church and State
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Because our government isn't about alleviating poverty.  Its about getting government off the backs of the rich.
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Theoretically it is to help poor countries develop.  In reality the governments lose their autonomy by having to follow the rules of those who are "helping".  Often at the expense of the citizens and more to the reward of the "helping" country.  The biggest offender being the United States.
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Liberals are closer to socialists.  They believe in big government (that is, high taxes) so that everyone is "taken care of".  They also believe that whatever you believe is okay.\n\nFor example, I have personal experience with Sweden, where the payroll taxes are double what they are in the US.  But the social benefits are higher too.  \n\nDo you want everyone to have the same opportunities, whether they want to work hard or just goof off?  If you say yes, that's liberal.  If you say no, that's conservative.\n\nCurrently in Holland, a new political party wants to legalize child pornography.  That is an ultra-liberal view.  "Whatever turns you on," is the ultimate catch-phrase of the liberals.  If that's you, then you are liberal.\n\nIf you believe in hard work, and making more money and being more successful than your lazy neighbor; if child pornography makes you sick, then you are a conservative.\n\nYou choose.
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i ll tell you what i think...\nbecause it is against a lot of people who benefit the non-freedom environment, such as authority religious or governmental etc..\nso when some people gain freedom, sure they had to struggle and pay the price for that because they surely will find lots and lots of powerful opposers..
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It's all about greed, power and self righteousness.\nMedia blasts us with biased information (if we listen to Liberal radio, TV and websites we get an anti Con message and visa verse).  This disinformation actually "uneducates" us spreading hate and intolerance just as uneducated people tend to be racists and bigots. \n\nLiberals will say that conservatives are greedy because they want to keep the money they have worked so hard to get and distribute it the way they see fit ie the government should control your bank account.Basically "what's mine is mine whats yours is mine." \nMost conservatives support many charities but they are charities that they choose. "What's mine is mine."\n\nConservatives think liberals "hate this country" simply because they voice their disdain of the current president and GOP congress. And fear that the Liberals will take the money they worked so hard for just to give to someone else.\n\nThe fundamental of each party have skewn together GOP used to want a smaller government but support "moral laws" while Liberals want bigger government yet taught personal liberties.  \n\nIt will not end, political differences have been around since the dawn of man and woman.
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You obviously have no concept of conservatism.  Not only do conservatives not steal from the poor, they donate billions of dollars a year to charities to help the poor.\n\nConservatives don't like the social security system because it is broken.  Whereas a person can earn 4% interest in a savings account, social security is earnining less than 1% interest.  See the problem?  The people, especially the poor, are getting screwed in this deal.\n\nConservatism is a set of beliefs, a primary one of which is that you need to set up systems to allow people to help themselves.  If you just keep handing out money to the poor, they will always be poor.  You're not giving them the tools to get out of poverty.  So just keep handing out money and assuring generational poverty.  Liberalism is actually much, much crueler to the poor than is conservatism.\n\nI know hundreds of Republicans and conservatives (not always the same thing).  None of them are wealthy, many aren't religious, and not a single one of them is stealing from the poor or trying to harm the poor.\n\nAnd by way, insulting conservatives with all your little talking points and phrases doesn't help the poor climb out of poverty.  It just exposes your ignorance and irrational hatred.
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Because more poverty is caused by governments than solved by governments.\n\nIn the US, Johnson started the War on Poverty. 40 years and trillions of dollars later, we have more poverty than we started with. Government is not the answer.\n\nThe problem is that giving poor people money does not solve poverty. It creates dependency. If you look at some of the very depressed inner cities in America, you are looking at what happens when you pay people not to work, and you pay women to have illegitimate children.\n\nWhatever you subsidize, you get more of.\nWhatever you tax, you get less of.\n\n10 years ago, when Clinton finally signed the Republican welfare reform bill, throwing lots of people off welfare, they just got up and went to work. Amazing how that works, no?
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The government is known for implementing programs and policies prior to getting the "kinks" out and prior to a proper analysis.  This applies to both democrates and republicans.  Both parties like to put "Band-Aids" on problems to make them temporarily go away.
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There are, of course, multiple answers to this question:\n\nEquitable distribution of wealth.  Those who make more money pay more in taxes.  Taxes fund social programs such as welfare and food stamps.\n\nSustainability of the gov't.  Those bombs we use don't grow off trees!  Neither does the salary of congressmen and women.\n\nUsed as an ultimatum against British colonization:  No taxation without representation!  Self-government and taxes appear to go hand-in-hand.
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The government is business of encouraging certain behavior for the good of society.\nThe government decided that monogamous heterosexual relationship benefit society more then other relationship.\nThus the government provides incentive for it -- called marriage.\nIf two people love each other who do not fit the bill they can still live together, have sex, etc etc.\nHowever why should the government encourage these relationship if they are less beneficial the others? It should not!\nThus the government has absolute power as to who can enter into a marriage.
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We need stronger control over the ones we have before we start to think about ever adding any new ones.  Government has entered into too many area's of our lives and we need to get this under control as well.  Good government does not mean controlling people through a series of government programs that set people up to fail rather than succede.  We have developed a whole set of people who have relied on the government for their support for several generations setting up a whole segment of our population that believes they have been set up to fail.  We have a society where everyone should have the same chances at success as all others do, yet part of our society has been set up for failure due to these programs.  While they are needed they should be set up to assist people rather than become a way of life.
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Communism is the ideal government but it will never work because we do not live in a perfect world. The sad fact is that people have an evil or sinful nature. The government will also be corrupt, because power is hard to control.  Socialism is maybe a better option.
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People are opposed because the government is in no position to determine what is "comparable".  When you give power to a government to dictate what is comparable, you open the door to thousands of harmful lawsuits (regardless of whether there's really a violation), and increase the costs of all businesses, even those who have always been paying comparably.  The market is the best measure of what is really comparable, because anyone is free to quit and take a job with a competitor if they're truly underpaid.  But two people doing the "same" job are still different people, and one is usually better at it than the other, so there's really no such thing as perfectly comparable value.