Can someone explain how this politics question is a violation of community guidelines and/or TOS?

I agree with another answer. Your question was more discussion based than actually seeking useful knowledge or information. It's a great question, but more for discussion/debate than knowledge seeking. Just keep in mind that other than what was explained above in regard to whether a question is knowledge seeking, a question doesn't have to be inappropriate or offensive in any way for it to be a violation.

The question you asked was deleted for being highly opinionated. You were trying to flame other users into a very heated argument by posting that question. It was neither knowledge-worthy nor advice-seeking. Now you should be able to see why this is already a Community Guidelines violation. All this would do is agitate certain members of this community in the process. Certain groups can be more easily angered than others that way, to put it more bluntly. Remember Answers is never the forum to discuss controversial or sensitive topics, so just avoid asking questions of that nature. It would be best if you asked them someplace else where it's permitted.

It's probably not a bad idea to get a solicitor or other professional to properly phrase your questions within the yahoo guidelines, bureaucrats will get you every time. You asked a question that might upset someone, so instead of simply moving on to another question, they may have been so upset, that they report you, which is a community service as we don't want anyone else to get upset. Other answers to this question are right, I personally feel however, if there is no controversy over answers I may as well google it, opinions are the heart & soul of Yahoo Answers.

It is my opinion when you use lots of action words like adverbs and descriptive adjectives you can really leave out of the first line that show your personal opinion, It's just too emotional and the questions are supposed to just be questions. Try this. It works for me Why did Paul Ryan pass that budget deal last December that cut 500 billion to the 'veterans COLA and Defense fund?

myself and the others who have answered you are highly knowledgeable about the Community Guidelines and expereinced at knowing what is and isn't a violation but based on your comments, you prefer to insist you did nothing wrong someone even gave you an alternate way to SEEK KNOWLEDGE: "Why did Paul Ryan pass that budget deal last December that cut 500 billion to the 'veterans COLA and Defense fund?" without posting a violation reporting is done by Community Moderators, not anyone of any particular political party (that's just paranoid nonsense) and that nonsense is why Politics and R&S are 90% violations YA is not a soapbox and you deciding to use it as such does not cancel out the Community Guidelines nor will it prevent rants from being reported as for why that one you reported did not drop - simple and NO conspiracy whatsoever - you do not have enough trust rating to delete what you report AND someone who does simply did not see that post - well I do and can so that rant is now gone "It is still displayed, and so is clearly not in any sort of violation, even though it has been reported." - your inability to drop it does not mean it is immune to being reported due to politics and I just proved it but like others, I can't sit at my PC 24 hours a day reporting so thousands of violations remain be careful about posting the text of Qs or the links, stating they are violations as this can be a callout against another member which is a violation