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Originally Posted by KevinTheHerbivore
Defend this, argue the point, otherwise shut the hell up, idiot.
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I'll do it for him.
- Dean is all over socialized healthcare.
- Dean supports repealing the Bush tax cuts to fund the above, Social Security, and "investments in job creation" i.e. more government job. Dean is not dumb enough to think that repealing those tax cuts would fund all of this, but that is his claim.
- Dean wants more expensive public schooling, including "broader access" higher education. Dean also wants lighter testing because it is "unfair" to poorer school districts.
- Dean supports (here's the big one) big labor like no other. I quote this from Dean's website:
"Right now there are no serious consequences if an employer ignores a newly formed union. There should be meaningful financial penalties available to federal regulators when an employer fails to negotiate in good faith with a union."
That, my friends, combined with Dean's natural tendency to intervene in what should be economic affairs, makes Dean a socialist.
Remember, socialism can mean "the stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved." Dean's submit-to-union tactic certainly is getting there, though.