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Survey: How would you answer these 5 questions?
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:06 pm
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:06 pm
Please post the political philosophy you subscribe to at the end after answering:
1) Select one:
a. Human beings are inherently good.
b. Human beings are inherently evil.
2) Select one:
a. The government should constantly look for things it can get involved in and improve.
b. The government should only get involved when there’s not a better private sector alternative or when there’s an imperative reason for government involvement (e.g. the military)
3) True or False: over the past 100 years, America has been a force for good in the world more frequently than it has been a force for bad in the world.
4) True or False: Economic growth is an inaccurate gauge of how well the country is doing; we should discount GDP for policy purposes since it ignores things like access to healthcare and education.
5) True or False: it is patriotic to pay taxes
1) Select one:
a. Human beings are inherently good.
b. Human beings are inherently evil.
2) Select one:
a. The government should constantly look for things it can get involved in and improve.
b. The government should only get involved when there’s not a better private sector alternative or when there’s an imperative reason for government involvement (e.g. the military)
3) True or False: over the past 100 years, America has been a force for good in the world more frequently than it has been a force for bad in the world.
4) True or False: Economic growth is an inaccurate gauge of how well the country is doing; we should discount GDP for policy purposes since it ignores things like access to healthcare and education.
5) True or False: it is patriotic to pay taxes
This post was edited on 10/30/18 at 12:11 am
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Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:08 pm to RedStickBR
1. a
2. b
3. true
4. false
5. false
2. b
3. true
4. false
5. false
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:09 pm to RedStickBR
1) neither, we all have good and evil in us.
2) b, but they should be watched like hawks. If only we had an honest media.
3) true, and frick anybody who says otherwise. We’re still a force for good even with the BAD ORANGE MAN in the White House.
4) false
5) there isn’t a more American thing to do than to evade taxes. It’s what this country partly went to war for in 1775, taxation by an ever increasing governmental power. Every penny the government steals from its citizenry, primarily from the income tax, goes to government expansion. I want things that the government was actually supposed to be in charge of getting my money. Like military, infrastructure, etc. Every cent the government gets, the government grows that much more.
2) b, but they should be watched like hawks. If only we had an honest media.
3) true, and frick anybody who says otherwise. We’re still a force for good even with the BAD ORANGE MAN in the White House.
4) false
5) there isn’t a more American thing to do than to evade taxes. It’s what this country partly went to war for in 1775, taxation by an ever increasing governmental power. Every penny the government steals from its citizenry, primarily from the income tax, goes to government expansion. I want things that the government was actually supposed to be in charge of getting my money. Like military, infrastructure, etc. Every cent the government gets, the government grows that much more.
This post was edited on 10/29/18 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:10 pm to RedStickBR
A
B
True
False
False
Conservative
B
True
False
False
Conservative
This post was edited on 10/29/18 at 11:12 pm
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:12 pm to RedStickBR
B
B
True
False
Neither. Taxes are mandatory right now; doesn't mean they're all fair/right.
B
True
False
Neither. Taxes are mandatory right now; doesn't mean they're all fair/right.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:13 pm to RedStickBR
#1. B (not so much as evil as selfish)
#2. B
#3. True
#4. False
#5. True
Conservative
#2. B
#3. True
#4. False
#5. True
Conservative
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:14 pm to RedStickBR
1. a
2. b (don’t really like this answer though)
3. True - this isn’t even debatable IMO
4. True - just your first sentence. False to second statement
5. False
“centrist libertarian”
2. b (don’t really like this answer though)
3. True - this isn’t even debatable IMO
4. True - just your first sentence. False to second statement
5. False
“centrist libertarian”
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:16 pm to RedStickBR
quote:
The government should only get involved when there’s not a better private sector alternative or when there’s an imperative reason for government involvement (e.g. the military)
Whats interesting about this is that it evolved from the idea that a feudal lord's subjects owed them military service, who then often made questionable judgements about which "govt" to actually serve.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:16 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Some very interesting responses so far. I’m already surprised by a few of them.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:22 pm to RedStickBR
1) A
2) Both. The government should be constantly looking for things it can get involved in and improve, and they should only get involved when there’s not a better way.
3) True.
4) True.
5) True.
Edit: Neoliberal
2) Both. The government should be constantly looking for things it can get involved in and improve, and they should only get involved when there’s not a better way.
3) True.
4) True.
5) True.
Edit: Neoliberal
This post was edited on 10/29/18 at 11:23 pm
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:26 pm to DallasTiger11
quote:
3. True - this isn’t even debatable IMO
Name me a Central American country that Prescott Bush and his boys didn't turn into a banana republic for one commercial interest or another
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:27 pm to FT
Do you consider the below to be an accurate representation of what you mean by “neoliberal?”
quote:
In the decades that followed, the use of the term "neoliberal" tended to refer to theories which diverged from the more laissez-faire doctrine of classical liberalism and which promoted instead a market economy under the guidance and rules of a strong state, a model which came to be known as the social market economy.
This post was edited on 10/29/18 at 11:27 pm
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:27 pm to jmcwhrter
But America has been a net positive worldwide.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:28 pm to RedStickBR
A
B
True
False
False
B
True
False
False
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:30 pm to RedStickBR
Eh, roughly. I lean a little further toward the laissez faire than that definition implies.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:30 pm to RedStickBR
1c - humans are inherently human, to be good or evil is a choice. Humans choose willingly what they will be.
2bish - Government has role in providing for the common defense. It should have no bearing on the private sector other than to promote equal opportunity. Note that does not mean providing equal outcomes.
3 - true
4 - false. When people are working how they pay their bills is much less of a concern. The economy is the engine that drives everything.
5 - false. It is patriotic to obey the law, and to rise up to change said law if we must.
2bish - Government has role in providing for the common defense. It should have no bearing on the private sector other than to promote equal opportunity. Note that does not mean providing equal outcomes.
3 - true
4 - false. When people are working how they pay their bills is much less of a concern. The economy is the engine that drives everything.
5 - false. It is patriotic to obey the law, and to rise up to change said law if we must.
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:30 pm to RedStickBR
1. B - why you think we always correcting babies
2. B
3. True
4. False
5. True but it’s not unpatriotic to want to pay less either
2. B
3. True
4. False
5. True but it’s not unpatriotic to want to pay less either
This post was edited on 10/29/18 at 11:32 pm
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:31 pm to FT
I would say the want and will of the American people is largely positive, while the behind-the-scenes operation of the government - intelligence community in particular - is net negative for the world
Almost any country embroiled in turmoil , you can rewind a few decades and find us meddling in their business
Almost any country embroiled in turmoil , you can rewind a few decades and find us meddling in their business
This post was edited on 10/29/18 at 11:32 pm
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:32 pm to RedStickBR
There needs to be a (c) or (both) answer, to all of those questions.
And that would be my answer on all.
Humans are both good and evil. Each one of us. We are defined by the sum of the choices we make.
Government cannot properly function for the full benefit of its represented people so long as corruption can take root within it.
Different facets of the United States have been effective in both the betterment and detriment of the world, depending on many of myriad factors.
Economic growth is a good thing but fosters greed.
Taxes are a necessary evil but how much is enough? Not enough? Too much?
And that would be my answer on all.
Humans are both good and evil. Each one of us. We are defined by the sum of the choices we make.
Government cannot properly function for the full benefit of its represented people so long as corruption can take root within it.
Different facets of the United States have been effective in both the betterment and detriment of the world, depending on many of myriad factors.
Economic growth is a good thing but fosters greed.
Taxes are a necessary evil but how much is enough? Not enough? Too much?
Posted on 10/29/18 at 11:34 pm to RedStickBR
Good and evil are false constructions. Sometimes good men must do evil and sometimes evil men good. Nothing is black and white. Even in the midst of evil men can find goodness in themselves.
I think that as a baseline, men is a selfish beast. Only in the presence of others do we find the good us.
I think that as a baseline, men is a selfish beast. Only in the presence of others do we find the good us.
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