56 here. Sorry it has taken so long for so many of these people to catch on to the ruse of government. We, and those before us, knew the simple facts of learning a skill, working hard, doing the right things by our creator, our family and our community and things would always get better. Yet we allowed these government programs to rise.....and now they are consuming us. We were made to fell guilty because of inequality. Those who were perceived to be unequal really don’t want equality. They want control. And they want to crush America.
People in Florida screamed that their property taxes went up this year forgetting that the idiots voted for it in 2018 with the school safety measures after the ONE school shooting. Idiots!!!! I voted NO to the tax but still get screwed paying the extra taxes because of the emotional voting liberals.
We’ll see. Not sure that enough have yet caught on to the lies.
That line was worth the price of admission.
Boomer less tolerant?
Boomers are the original “me” generation. They spawned the millennials. The ruined the education system. They are ruining government.
They will reap what they’ve sown.
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I'm not waiting for my state to do this; I'm moving my domicile to another tax friendly state in a matter of months.
I'm not going to lie to myself that they might cut taxes.
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If you really think about it we live in a sea of lies.
-- Governments at all levels lie and deceive us to put up smoke screens so we won't discover their self-serving greed and corruption.
-- In the commercial world we are targeted every minute of every day (no exaggeration) by deceptive commercials, advertisements and p0p-up ads. Note how few commercials say anything about the actual product itself.
-- Academia is supposed to teach and instill in us a mindset of critical and logical thinking but instead is more concerned with indoctrinating students in socialist ideology and relentlessly increasing tuition to cover their own empire building and increasingly lucrative employment for faculty members.
-- And the mainstream media, the biggest liar of them all, passes off a steady stream of left wing propaganda as "journalism" and "news coverage".
We are surrounded by so many lies we don't even notice most of them anymore.
The other thing they did to destroy our sense of independence in retirement, they passed a state wide rent control bill. We can only raise rents up to 7% a year, the renter association wanted to make it no more than 2% per year, remember when I said our property taxes go up 3% the renters want us to loose money for them.
Were moving and selling, it will take some time, but we are taking all of it to another state were we might be more appreciated? All of it is 19 rentals and a 165 acre timber farm.
Our government has WAYYY too much money to play with. For instance 35 million for Mueller, Nancy-Jerry-Adam mini DOJ they have set up within Congress that hired many extremely well paid hit men with law degrees. We all know the stories and yet government is like the plant in Little Shop of Horrors....appearing benign when it first started but grew into a huge monster demanding “feed me...feed me”.
I think we could cut our government in half and never feel it in our real lives. It’s an out of control lying demanding monster.
I think a few really wise people founded this Republic with a limited government - they hoped that future generations would resist trading away their liberties - giving the government too much power....
... and its been down hill ever since - because the average voter does not grasp the simple concept that you can’t rob Peter to pay Paul. The average voter falls for the same political scam time after time:
Government gradually becomes nothing but a protection racket - people voting to empower the government to enforce some special interest to be paid for by other people.
The government was originally set up to protect citizens’ liberty, but it has long since become an instrument of legal plunder whereby we can all attempt to coerce each other in the name of some lofty sounding social cause.
The concept of minding one’s own business and leaving each other alone is completely lost.
Every privatized pension plan established by businesses/corporations are given a carrot on the stick in the form of "tax breaks". When revenues and T-bills are NOT enough to "pay the bills", Congress extracts from what "they have given". Greatest generation/Boomers voted for this, they should reap the TRILLIONS of debt they racked up. Sorry, passing the buck onto the next generations is theft. Don't blame x,Y, Millennials, Zoomers, etc... for resisting.
Who are you to say that the next generations need to clean up the Federal Leviathan unleashed by the post WWII "greatest generation/boomers" that voted for this mess in the first place?