Teddy Roosevelt certainly wouldn't be a republican today. He was very much against big business. He and J.P. Morgan had brutal battles, so there's no telling what he would think of Bill Gates for real...very similar situation today with software in place of steel...
The Green Party is socialist....bordering on communist. Read their platform in detail. The Green Party is in favor of caps on salaries so there's not such a disparity between the proverbial "haves" and "have nots".
More often than not political parties use environmentalism as a smoke screen for socialist agendas. Everyone gets behind clean water and clean air, it's an easy sell. So what better way to control and restrict businesses.
If you dont think so, just analyze the logic behind some of the environmental rules that are favored by our more socialistic politicians. Under Clinton era rules, you cannot upgrade or expand major pieces of pollution impacting equipment without modernizing the entire plant to bring the whole thing up to current standards.
Bush has proposals to remove that restriction. And the environmentalists have been fiercely opposing it. But here's the detail they neglect to tell you. Bush's proposals let you upgrade anything you want so long as the cumulative amount of pollution coming out of the plant is the same or less. In most cases it will be less because the new or upgraded piece will typically be more modern.
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