Comments on: A Centrist Agenda http://themoderatevoice.com/16837/a-centrist-agenda/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:22:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/16837/a-centrist-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-109564 DLS Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:24:10 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/moderates/16837/a-centrist-agenda/#comment-109564 And <strong>no</strong> personal expenditure tax! (If you thought the income tax we have now is bad enough...) A VAT or even a retail sales tax is much better. And no personal expenditure tax! (If you thought the income tax we have now is bad enough…) A VAT or even a retail sales tax is much better.

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/16837/a-centrist-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-109563 DLS Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:21:52 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/moderates/16837/a-centrist-agenda/#comment-109563 <blockquote>Left-to-right scale of 1-10, they’re a nice, safe 4.</blockquote> For every or any five, there are two or more threes.

Left-to-right scale of 1-10, they’re a nice, safe 4.

For every or any five, there are two or more threes.

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/16837/a-centrist-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-109555 DLS Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:04:07 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/moderates/16837/a-centrist-agenda/#comment-109555 They're not true centrists. They're RINOs (often liberal) and Dems who don't question the status quo. They're trying to maintain the nice, safe, overbloated elitist Washington, DC status quo. They're simply less liberal than other politicians in the Democratic Party (who are impatient with "spineless" Dem leadership) or their more radical relatives. This is similar to one or two groups in Congress that formed (one of them by oft-RINO Arlen Specter) in reaction to the 1994 elections. How dare the US public question the Gospel of Big Government, and worse, elect people who may seek real reform! Left-to-right scale of 1-10, they're a nice, safe 4. Bloomberg is no centrist. He's liberal, simply placed in the same place in the spectrum as the meeting participants, less to the left of other, more liberal Dems and radicals. They’re not true centrists. They’re RINOs (often liberal) and Dems who don’t question the status quo. They’re trying to maintain the nice, safe, overbloated elitist Washington, DC status quo. They’re simply less liberal than other politicians in the Democratic Party (who are impatient with “spineless” Dem leadership) or their more radical relatives.

This is similar to one or two groups in Congress that formed (one of them by oft-RINO Arlen Specter) in reaction to the 1994 elections. How dare the US public question the Gospel of Big Government, and worse, elect people who may seek real reform!

Left-to-right scale of 1-10, they’re a nice, safe 4.

Bloomberg is no centrist. He’s liberal, simply placed in the same place in the spectrum as the meeting participants, less to the left of other, more liberal Dems and radicals.

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