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Liberalism is represented in the upper-left part of the grid. It combines a desire for governmental intervention to reduce economic inequality and inequalities between groups (especially between the majority and minority groups) with a desire not to have the government intervene to enforce policies based on religious views by regulating personal behaviors. Thus, liberals tend to favor higher tax rates for the wealthy than for the middle class and the poor and programs and policies to ensure equal treatment of women, members of ethnic and racial minorities, and gays and lesbians but tend to oppose, for example, prayer in schools or government bans on pornography.