What if people are not clever after all? Maybe they are brainwashed by the media. There is a lot of talk radio and it's pretty much one side or the other. Both sides say the other side sucks and your going to die a slow miserable and impovered death if you defect from red to blue or blue to red.Personally, I dint like party politics. I'd like to be a republican, and more often than not I like those candidates. But I vote for candidates. not a party line. I feel people voting straight party line are not voicing an educated opinion; but an opinion of the party. I'm very conservative on some things and very liberal on others. no one party suits me so there would be not one party of candidates that would suit me. Since I'm an individual, I vote for individuals.
Death tax is pittance. wait till the average wage earner is making 75k a person in a few year and a married couple reports 150k and none of the itemized deduction amount to a piss hole in the snow, because your paying AMT.
What about 400 billion in war efforts in 6 years.
No student left behind my ass. That money could send 10 years of high school graduates to college across the country fro free.
And of course you realize that the monthly payment for a family HMO is around 900. which is no more than the average mortgage payment.