to talk about certain views and goals
that the different political parties. The first issue that I will touch
upon is education. The Republicans believe in strengthening America's
education system. The want to totally reform the system that is already
standing; they want to set higher goals and make schools safer. The
Democrats on the other hand have a different view on education. The
Democrats plan to invest a lot more of our money into schools and at the
same time expect more from them. The Democrats and Republicans basically
agree on the same things about education: they want to reform the schools
and make have higher expectations. Relating to the Federalists and
Anti-Federalists, I believe that if they had an issue on education it would
much be like the issues of today. The Anti-Federalists would believe in
almost the same beliefs as the Republicans. It is really hard to say
because in the 1780's education was most commonly not a big issue; the
Federalists would most likely believe in how the Democrats do today. I
don't really have a view on how the education system should be dealt with, I
do however believe that the Federal government should not be involved in
the education system, I think that it should be up to the states and they
should pass out the funds and make the laws about schools.
The second issue that I will talk about is taxes. Taxes are probably the
most controversial issue out of all of them. The Republicans want to change
the tax system by making it so that over six million families will not have
to pay income tax. They also want to cut taxes in many places, they want to
eliminate the death tax, reduce the marriage penalty, and double the child
credit among other things. The Democrats on the other hand want to make
more tax cuts and hope that America is debt-free by 2012. The Federalists
and Anti-Federalists as I stated before were much like the Democrats and
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