The problem with this statistic is you can get a Democrat or a Republican to agree with this statement for very different reasons. So I will answer for both, with my real answers under the Democratic Banner.
Income inequality:
Democratic Answer: There is no public debate on what to do about has clearly become a problem. The GOP keeps protecting hedge funds types who use the carried interest loophole to pay only a 15% tax rate when their income should be taxed at the 39% marginal rate. Meanwhile, corporations are incentivized to keep production and income offshore because U.S. marginal tax rates are so high vs other countries. Meanwhile, many U.S. corporations use other loopholes to pay very little corporate income tax. While Democrats want to close those loopholes and reduce the marginal rates, the GOP wants to cut personal income tax rates and spending for the reduction in revenue.
Republican Answer: Why is this an issue when all it involves is income redistribution.
Health Insurance:
Democratic Answer: The GOP wants to repeal and replace the ACA with what we had before and we don't have a single payer plan.
Republican Answer: We still have the ACA and I still have to buy health insurance, which I would do anyway, but I don't believe anyone should buy health insurance when they can just go on Medicaid eventually when they do get sick. Then I will complain about the cost of Medicaid going through the roof, which it is anyway because of the ACA and long term care.
Citizens United:
Democratic Answer: Corporations are not people and should not have unlimited financial means to influence politicians or voters.
Republican Answers: What happened to once and done Supreme Court Decisions.
Roe v. Wade:
Democratic Answer: What happened to once and done Supreme Court Decisions.
Republican Answer: The Supreme Court keeps limiting the power of states to make their own rules on this.
Individual Rights:
Democratic Answer: The GOP refuses to acknowledge that people of all colors and sexual orientations have identical rights to religious whites.
Republican Answer: Allowing people of all sexual orientations to marry is simply wrong and we don't like to think about why we don't believe in individual rights in this area because we don't have a good answer for it so we allow people to use protecting their religious liberty as the reason for allowing such discrimination.
Terrorism:
Democratic Answer: This genie refuses to go back into the bottle and we can't do anything about domestic terrorism because the NRA will not allow it.
Republican Answer: We need to take the battle to them and the Democrats won't send an army to do what needs to be done. And we don't have an answer for domestic terrorism except to keep Muslims out because we cannot control white supremacists so why should we allow more Muslims in when some of them could do the same thing.
Donald Trump is the GOP Candidate:
Democratic Answer: Donald Trump is unqualified to be President and will lead us in unknown, probably dangerous, directions on the economy and international affairs.
Republican Answer: Hillary Clinton and Donad Trump are unqualified to be President and we don't know what kind of Supreme Court justices either will appoint, but we know we need someone like Scalia or Thomas or Alito if we are to make any progress on the ACA, Roe v. Wade and upholding Citizens United. Better Trump than Clinton since we may have some influence over him.
Global Warming:
Democratic Answer: The GOP keeps preventing anything from happening.
Republican Answer: Shit happens and we should just let the market economy adjust for it. But the Democrats keep making us look stupid on this issue and young people care about it.
Immigration:
Democratic Answer: We can't ignore 11 mm people who are here working illegally and we inhumanly wrecking families by deporting some people.
Republican Answer: We aren't doing anything about 11 mm people who are here illegally.
Partisan Politics:
Democratic Answer: The GOP will not compromise on anything because of gerrymandering.
Republican Answer: The Democrat's are being taken over by ultra-liberals who will not compromise on anything because of gerrymandering, but gerrymandering protects more Republicans than Democrats so gerrymandering is a good thing that we are not unhappy about.
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