Decius wrote:

dmv wrote:

Trial Lawyers are, on average, Democrats.

This is circular. Trial Lawyers are Democrats because Democrats support their political issues. If Republicans supported their political issues they would be Republican. You can't argue that the Republicans are pursuing a political stance that Trial Lawyers don't like in order to erode the Democrats funding when the reason Trail Lawyers are funding the Democrats is because the Republicans are pursuing those political stances. There needs to be a independent variable here.

Woah, chill out. I was elaborating on the reference, not making a new point. You wrote "How's that?" in response to k's "tort reform is largely about the same thing... reducing the wealth of a highly democratic group of people." This response is an engagement, and I consider it bad taste.

What are you even saying here "If Republicans supported their political issues they would be Republicans" -- are you trying to argue a circular issue by proposing another one? What does "Democrat" or "Republican" mean if it isn't a platform of supported issues, and if we're willing to be flexible about this platform, what does the new label mean? If Republicans supported Unions' political issues, Unions would be Republican too.

All my post was intenting to clarify was that trial lawyers are significant contributors to the Democrats; the party embraces them; the Republicans are visibly targetting them. I really don't want to participate in an underinformed discussion about tort reform or trial lawyers.

RE: The politics of taxation