05-01-2020, 07:47 AM
(04-30-2020, 07:22 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(04-30-2020, 07:08 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: We're only concerned about taxes. Are you sure about that? You guys seem way more concerned about taxation than us. We are more concerned about individual wealth than taxation like you guys. I get the impression that the bulk of the Democratic supporters are either living off it or reliant upon it or directly related to it and empowered by it somehow or another these days. I think it's quite obvious and I'm amazed that you're unable to see it.
The Republican unraveling memes have been low tax, small government, cut domestic spending for years. They have gone way beyond the point of diminishing return.
I know that off an Engineer’s pay I am not living off, reliant, directly related to it or otherwise. Neither do I know of many that are. You sound like you are wallowing in Reagan’s welfare queen myth. If you allow yourself to indulge in a false sense of what is common, you come up with strange ideals.
When economics is a morality play, that's what you get. C-Xer is typical believer of the "they didn't earn it; they don't deserve it" meme, that actually makes us all poorer in the long run … even the short run, for that matter.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.