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"you are not a conservative, because a true conservative has a foundation that we are all individuals who are responsible for ourselves, and that government, to avoid becoming tryannical, must remain small."

I am a conservative in the Eisenhower mold. Part of that is paying your bills as you get them.

The root of conservative means to conserve, or keep the same. If you look at this trend, it is not conservative to support the shift in 1%ers earnings. It is not keeping America strong.

And tyranny is not only threatened by government. You forget, Washington & the other founding fathers fought to create a government that would keep us free against interior forces. Interior forces can include our own wealthy citizens. Imagine the extreme example of a handful of extremely wealthy corporations and a nation of minimum wage workers -- that is not a free nation.

We are headed towards "not a free nation" by virtue of giving too much wealth and too much power to a handful of people. I don't think we'll get there (our economy will collapse just like in 1929, and we'll have an FDR-like backlash for decades), but very definitely we are on track for losing our freedoms. True conservatives understand that fighting for freedom does not mean surrendering your wealth and political power just because you are told to.

our problem is not a lack of taxation, it is uncontrolled spending by those who covet what other people have and with the help of elected officials use the force of government to steal what is not theirs.

Just because rats (with republician help, sadly) have run up the debt, especially since 2007, doesn’t mean it should keep growing (and us being taxed to pay for). Prune it back to where it rightly belongs, and we won’t need to have a tax discussion.