Well, basically, the conservative philosophy says that if you tax the rich, the hard working, prosperous people who own all the big companies, and especially if you tax the companies themselves, then you're essentially discouraging prosperity. If a company is paying 50% of their income in taxes, then that is fifty perscent less that they might have had to start a new factory, a new place to creat jobs. Obviously, the inverse is also true. If they have more money, they can do more with it. Invest it. You sow what you reap, and if you have more to sow, then you'll reap more, and other people will be able to get a job.

It seams to many--I am not saying that this is fact--that the Democrat party in America, the far-"left" as they are called in the news are totally obsessed with power and control. The leftists seem to want a welfare state, where money is redistributed rather than earned. If you tax the rich and give to the poor continually, then you'll eventually end up with nothing, because you take away the incentive to make money, which is essentially Communism.

Again, this could be largely exagerated. But it is fact that the government as an abysmal track-record at dealing with social issues. You can't simply throw money at a problem to solve it. It doesn't work that way. If you are moved by a problem, then give to a charity--one you know has a good record at fixng things. The problem with liberalism that I see is that it wants to make everybody depentent on the government for their day to day existence; conservatives belive that the government shold make laws, enforce them, and provide for national services and defense, but not provide for the people.