Are Conservatives really Regressives?

[Thunder]

The idea that all laws represent progress, and therefore none should be rolled back, as implied by the OP, is certainly a novel one.

strawman.

and the OP implies no such thing.

please, try again.

 

[Arrow]

That sounds similar to the head of the DNC Debbie Wasserman Schultz statements of late.

"Literally, Figuratively, Bad Analogies, Demagoguery, Whatever"

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2...uratively-bad-analogies-demagoguery-whatever/

Last week I pointed out how Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, despite belonging to the Omicron Delta Kappa honor society at the University of Florida and earning an M.A. there, confused the terms figuratively and literally, as in the American economy was “literally about to go over a cliff” just before Barack Obama became president. Now, thanks to Thomas Lifson of The American Thinker, the list of her solecisms can be extended. Wasserman Schultz told Roland Martin, “[N]ow you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.”

She later retracted part of her statement, telling Politico:

Jim Crow was the wrong analogy to use. But I don’t regret calling attention to the efforts in a number of states with Republican dominated legislatures, including Florida, to restrict access to the ballot box for all kinds of voters, but particularly young voters, African Americans and Hispanic Americans.

She did not retract her mangling of the language, however. This is literally quite stupid of Wasserman Schultz, and she should stop this habit before she becomes (figuratively) the butt of political jokes.

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

wrong.

By 1927, only the richest 2% of taxpayers paid any federal income tax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge#Taxation

So... what is your point? I assume you have conceded all the other ones, if this red herring is all you can throw out.

 

[bikerdruid]

conservatives use 'progressive' as a dirty word.
if they are not regressive, they certainly oppose any positive change.
bitching about the dropping of DADT in the military is certainly regressive.
bitching about evolution being taught in school is certainly regressive.

yup...regressive....re-gress-ive.....has a ring to it!

 

[Grizzly Adams]

if they are not regressive, they certainly oppose any positive change I like.

Fix'd that 4 u.

 

[Thunder]

So... what is your point?

my point, was that the following claim was WRONG:

Originally Posted by Tsukasa Buddha
The clear trend over the last century alone has been deregulation and lowering of taxes.

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

my point, was that the following claim was WRONG:

Originally Posted by Tsukasa Buddha [qimg]http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/helloworld2/buttons/viewpost.gif[/qimg]
The clear trend over the last century alone has been deregulation and lowering of taxes.

Except that you only posted evidence regarding how many people a certain tax covered at one point. Which doesn't really prove anything either way.