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<blockquote data-quote="Proximity" data-source="post: 7140821" data-attributes="member: 589997">Maybe not the voice of conservatism in general, but the voice of Republicans.In terms of the economy, I see conservatism as the voice (good metaphor) of small government, and, by extension, low taxes (primarily on the rich, taxes on the lower classes will remain low in either case). Given how capitalism is driven by greed, government needs to act as the check of capitalist cruelty as it has in the past 100 years, much to the benefit of almost every person. It also provides an enormous amount of benefits, from unemployment benefits, welfare, safety/health regulation, protection of rights, etc. A rational argument would require saying that &quot;small government = good&quot;, when there is no reality to that statement. So the only argument the right has are emotional arguments. Things like government shouldn&#039;t be involved in private business, &quot;what would the founding fathers want!&quot; or just anti government sentiment in general which is disguised as a rational argument, but in reality is simply provoking an emotional response. A perfect example of the latter is the list of government waste audioholic brought up, which obviously works on him hook line and sinker.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Proximity, post: 7140821, member: 589997"] Maybe not the voice of conservatism in general, but the voice of Republicans. In terms of the economy, I see conservatism as the voice (good metaphor) of small government, and, by extension, low taxes (primarily on the rich, taxes on the lower classes will remain low in either case). Given how capitalism is driven by greed, government needs to act as the check of capitalist cruelty as it has in the past 100 years, much to the benefit of almost every person. It also provides an enormous amount of benefits, from unemployment benefits, welfare, safety/health regulation, protection of rights, etc. A rational argument would require saying that "small government = good", when there is no reality to that statement. So the only argument the right has are emotional arguments. Things like government shouldn't be involved in private business, "what would the founding fathers want!" or just anti government sentiment in general which is disguised as a rational argument, but in reality is simply provoking an emotional response. A perfect example of the latter is the list of government waste audioholic brought up, which obviously works on him hook line and sinker. [/QUOTE]

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