Meaning more middle class (who more or less support Democrats) people pay higher taxes, while richer people save their money. This can be seen when Reagan's adept lowering of the highest tax rate to 50% harnessed these voters' anger allowing the Republican's to maintain business friendly legislation.
For many years both parties have had a conservative and a liberal wing, which has damaged the unity of each party as they have not been ideologically distinct. An example being the Blue Dog democrats, who are the more fiscally conservative wing of the Democrats. Some argue that the two parties are very ideologically distinct. The Republicans are the more conservative party of the two and have traditional family values and morals with strong ties to Christianity supporting many of its beliefs. They’re also mainly based in southern states away from the heavily and densely populated cities, this links to why they are pro-gun ownership and back the argument that the 2nd amendment gives all Americans the right to own a gun.
To what extent is there a consensus between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party? Taxation Traditionally, it would appear that adversarial politics occurred between the Labour Party and Conservative Party in terms of taxation. Traditional Conservatives believed in low taxation, as they agreed with the notion that low taxation was an incentive to make people work harder. In contrast, Labour believed in higher rates of tax for those who earned higher wages, as this would achieve the redistribution of wealth and pursued Labour’s desire of economic equality. More recently however, it can be seen that there has been slightly more consensus between the two parties in terms of taxation.
According to an article in Slate On, the poor and low income people in our society are more overweight than the wealthy. This psychological behavior transcends to other cultures as well, telling me that people don’t really want equality but superiority. Regardless of the parts of the world you are from, someone always wants to feel superior to someone else. Though Americans did inherit the “wanting more” trait from the frontier opportunities, there were an influx of other nationalities flocking to America for the same opportunities (82). Likewise, they too have adopted the “hunger for more” mentality because they are financially able to adopt the psychological want.
Foreign policy is important because it has a lot to do with the trade, technology, and communications of the United States. Also by nations working together global problems can be fixed easier. Equal rights are important to the U.S because it shows that everyone has the same rights including: black people, white people, Asian, men and woman, ect. A bad president would make the economy go down, not believe in equal rights and have a bad foreign policy. The best president in U.S history I believe is Abraham Lincoln.
Gay marriage is significantly welcome from the Green Party’s perspective, more so than by the Democratic Party, and significantly more welcome than by the Republican Party. The death penalty is also an overwhelming aspect of political campaigning. While the Republicans generally support the death penalty, the Democratic Party is lukewarm on the subject. The Green Party, on the other hand, totally opposes the death penalty, claiming that it statistically fails to deter crime. Apart from that fact, it is objectionably inhumane for us to “play God” and decide whose lives we are justified to take.
Due to their defeat in the civil war between the times period 1861 – 1865, their reputation was starting to become slightly crumpled. Like the Republicans, they had divisions, but in contrast, they were not as well hidden and were a lot deeper, on show to the whole country. Another difference between the Democrats and Republicans was that the Democrats were very pro-slavery, making them fully dependant on the resentment of the white southerners of the US. A main reason for the Republicans dominance was the strengths they had as a party. One of these included the massive growth of conservatism through the US, and increasing business influences.
With the recent increase of overweight and obese Americans, a debate has surfaced over whether the government should tax sugary drinks. Taxing sugary drinks is the right step because it could change people’s choices behavior, it reduces the number of people who purchase these drinks, it could pay for health education and medical expenses, and it helps prevent obesity. Taxing sugary drinks could change people’s choices behavior. People need to change their life style and learn to live more healthily. Healthy choices are always more expensive than bad choices.
This did have an effect on the US. This is because Nixon was a more conservative leader, unlike Kennedy. Things would most likely have been different if Kennedy had become president. The changes and things that Nixon had done during his presidency have led us to today and have effect on us
Others however believed that Obama’s inauguration would serve no real change and possibly promote further hostility from the large number of white supremacist groups across the nation (a majority of which located in the south) creating further rifts between cultures. Supporters of the argument that a black president has helped the USA overcome racial divisions would argue that it has led to the appointment of a more racially diverse cabinet. This shows