Tax and Spend Progressives You Are Joking

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Conservatives often focus on the wrong questions, and this
poll, which plays into the caricature of "tax-and-spend" liberalism
and the specter of government taking money from hard-working people and giving
it to people who are less deserving, is a prime example. Ask people about the
direction that progressives actually embrace as opposed to the stereotype
presented by conservatives, and they will side with progressives. For example,
a February 2008 Associated Press/Ipsos poll found that 70 percent of
respondents thought that "increasing spending on domestic programs like
health care, education, and housing" would help fix the country's economic
problems. A January 2008 Fortune Magazine poll found that 67 percent would
support "increasing government spending on things like public-works
projects to help create jobs." Bush administration economic policies, if
anything, have fostered a redistribution of wealth upward, creating an
unprecedented economic gap between the very wealthy and the rest of the
country. Progressives believe this is wrong, and most of the country agrees.