[joe fonebone]

"Do social conservatives want more taxes? No. More regulations? No. More funding for government schools? No, they want vouchers and they home school."
Lets take this apart...You say you do not want more taxes, yet feel that laws that are causing the need for more funding are OK, and should not be repealed. You feel the need to regulate my morals, regardless of what they be, to suit your own agenda. The only way to do this, on a federal level, is to raise taxes to pay for it. As for regulations, the above explains that you are actually for more regulations, not less, so as to keep what goes on in my house your business. I am in agreement with you about schools. The feds have no place here, it is a states issue.

[Brugmansian]

Lets take this apart...You say you do not want more taxes, yet feel that laws that are causing the need for more funding are OK

We can stop right there. I don't. As I said (in other words), social conservatives believe exactly as a Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan said they do many years ago:

"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society."

That applies to proposed laws and laws which are on the books. There is a real problem with current law however. Socialism is a lot easier to get into than get out of. We live in the New Deal/Great Society. It has transformed the American culture. People's lives are entwined with government. Children don't set aside money to take care of their parents in old age. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are there. The reason the Medicare drug prescription plan passed so easily was not just because those on Medicare wanted it. It was passed because both they and their kids wanted it. The kids didn't want to pay anymore than they do on their parents already. And, considering how much everyone is being taxed, there was an insurmountable demand that that bill be signed into law.

I can come up with ideas all day on how things should be. The problem is how to get there. Obama may be solving that for us tho....he is on a track to crash it all. Then we'll have a reset and can start anew.