My original post on r/conservatives removed without reason, discussing new conservative ideas from the UK.

The Good Right - launched by the owner of ConservativeHome

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I get this reply from /u/keypuncher

Yep - its a (UK) plan for how conservatives should become more like liberals, which is a pretty standard push from the left any time conservatives start to gain power. For examples, let me address the 12 point plan: State supported housing programs - We've tried this in several different versions, from housing projects for the poor, to moving the poor into middle class neighborhoods, to coercing mortgage lenders into making home loans to people who couldn't afford them. The results ranged from moderately bad to disastrous.

Raise taxes on the wealthy, lower taxes on the poor - The top 20% of income earners already pay 94% of all Income taxes, and the bottom 40% (and about half of the middle 20%) have a negative effective income tax rate that in the case of the bottom two quintiles, wipes out their other taxes. You can't lower the tax burden of someone who is already paying nothing. Increased minimum wage - as we are seeing in the areas that are increasing the minimum wage in the US now, this results in reduced employment - just as the CBO and all conservatives said it would. If you want increased wages for the poor, you have to reduce the massive oversupply of unskilled labor in the US, and that means securing our borders, deporting the illegal aliens already here, and lowering business taxes and regulatory costs to bring jobs back to the US. Trade agreement with Europe - the current US version of this is the TPP, which will be universally bad for Americans. More Infrastructure Investment - That was what the President's trillion dollar Stimulus was supposed to be. Instead, it went almost entirely to his cronies. Bring business back, the tax base will increase, and then infrastructure investment won't be a problem. Private schools for low-income students - Conservatives agree on this, via school vouchers. Liberals are vehemently against allowing people to get a better education.

New rules for better financial planning and lower pay for government workers - will never happen without ending public sector unions and a Constitutional Amendment for a balanced budget. Conservatives are in favor of both, liberals neither. Government spending that is more focused on the most deserving corners of the nation - Right now in the US that would be Texas, since it is the only thing that has been keeping the US afloat for the last decade or so. By "deserving" this means "poor" - so it wants more Federal spending on the poorer areas. How about we stop doing wealth redistribution via the Federal Governemnt instead.

Family Hubs to replace Childrens centers - In the US, we could simply phase out poverty programs that incentivize single parenting.

Reform of political donations - In the US, the left is big on getting corporate and non-profit money out of politics... except for unions. I'm fine with getting all money out of politics and making all campaigns publicly funded only, once the candidate is on the ballot... prohibiting private funding after. Both parties would hate that.

Financial assistance for the poor to enter government - how about no. There are already plenty of politicians who derive their power from pandering to the poor. More politicans like Charlie Rangel and Sheila Jackson Lee, we don't need.

To which I point out

which is a pretty standard push from the left any time conservatives start to gain power.

Maybe it would have been better to release the post to debate it? Anyway conservativehome.com Tim Montgomerie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomerie

I then get this free dumb:

Yeah, we could just allow people to post everything politicsusa.com throws up and debate that too. Of course it is all leftist crap and would be a huge waste of our time to debate, would clutter up the front page, and would make people think we agreed with it if we chose to not debate it or if we got enough leftists in cheerleading for it - i.e., we would look just like /r/politics. So, how about not.