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Conservatives wish to ban abortion because they feel it is "murder" and the woman who has an abortion should be culpable of a criminal charge. First of all, many conservatives feel abortion violates their religious principles.
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<p>Would you shut up about Christianity? My argumentation wasn't based around that, so stop it. Furthermore, It's kind of hard to ignore the fact that the same Judeo-Christian philosophy that enlightened us through the ages with an American form of government would also have something to say against abortion. Please, however, refrain from getting Christianity involved in this debate as it doesn't need to be. My points written above stand: abortion is murder in principle and cannot be allowed by a government to happen (you bringing up Christianity didn't touch a speck of my logic).</p>
<p>As far as that "research refuting my own argument" goes, I find it cheap for you to copy and paste one sentence from a several page document and dance around pretending the whole paper has been decimated. DIRECTLY AFTER YOUR QUOTE reads as follows in that research paper:</p>
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First, measured on a year-to-year basis, the country was beset by double-digit inflation in 1979, 1980, and 1981. Second, that inverse harbinger of confidence in all paper currencies, the price of gold, was pushing $900 and silver was also at an all-time high. Third, the U.S. dollar had weakened steadily, since its link to gold had been severed by Nixon in Aug. 1971. For example, the dollar fetched 360 Japanese yen at the start of the decade, but only half of that by 1980. Fourth, the tax system was becoming punitive even for middle-class families, bracket creep raised rates from 22% in 1965 to 49% in 1980 and the highest income taxpayers faced a 70% federal marginal rate, and an 11% D.C. tax on top of that.
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<p>With that being said, it doens't even matter anyway because my point was that a deficit is created when you SPEND more than you HAVE. It was the DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS THAT CREATED THE DEFICIT BY SPENDING $1.83 FOR EVERY $1.00 THEY HAD, NOT REAGAN WHO ROSE TAX REVENUE (even HELPING Congress' spending habits) BY GIVING TAX-CUTS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.</p>
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I will give you some credit; You correctly Identified that a liberal (John F. Kennedy) was the first president to utilize deficit spending.
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<p>I not once made that point. My point was that the democrats in Congress had to have created the deficit as they were the ones who were in charge of all of the SPENDING.</p>
<p>Finally, your attempt at refuting my gay marriage points didn't even touch my primary argument (only a secondary comment I made about questioning why gays would even want to get involved with the government). Even if I granted your point about gay people wanting to get involved with the government, it wouldn't have to be through "MARRIAGE" (see above posts), it could be through civil unions. Again, gay "marriage" is illogical and goes against the point on why we have a marriage institution to begin with: procreation! (Remember, this isn't an argument against gay PEOPLE, this is an argument against gay "MARRIAGE".)</p>
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Aww come on man. I liked what I was reading in your arguement until I came across that statement. Man that is weak sauce. I hope you can do a better job next time.
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<p>That wasn't weak sauce lol, he made a conservative statement, so I had to nail him on it (no offense madskier) =P</p>