It still amazes me how self professed conservatives can do a 180 and turn into big government, “let’s use the tax code for social engineering” and “your tax burden is never too small when it comes to MY kids” when it hits their pocketbooks or even worse, when it comes to others being forced to support their children. I know several arch conservative couples who have 4-6 kids and brag about how they don’t pay hardly any taxes at all...while condemning high taxes in general or criticizing how liberals give tax breaks to their constituencies.
I didn’t ask you to have those 5 or 6 kids and nobody asked my opinion before they raised my taxes and lowered (or eliminated) yours because having children is “such an expense”. Your children are your decision, why do support putting a gun to my head and require through the force of law for me to pay YOU to raise them? What is the oft spoke phrase of conervatives when they see welfare queens having more kids to gain greater benefits? “If you can’t afford them, don’t have them.”
And each time I mention it I get the “MY kids are going to pay YOUR social security!”. Not only do I not want YOUR kids paying MY social security but this has to be the most lame and unsupportable excuse coming out of the mouth of a conservative I’ve ever seen. We all know SS is a ponzi scheme requiring more and more workers paying into the system to cover more and more retirees.
Their response only codifies the system, basically becoming an enabler to the one issue that we all agree is bankrupt and will not be able to serve much longer without drastic changes.
And what will those changes be? It will become a needs based welfare program which means I’ll never see a dime because I was responsible and took care of my own future needs. So you can take “MY kids..pay YOUR..” and stick in the lock box.
There’s nothing more exasperating than a conservative who talks the talk but won’t walk the walk when it hits THEIR pocketbook. You’re an opportunistic poser, nothing more.
Bob, you cannot believe that you alone control every facet of your life. You are dependent upon so many others for what you are, your health, financial position, you name it and it is because other people exist in your life. Your doctor had parents who spent tons of dollars raising him to be the person you seek when you need help. All of the teachers who educated you came from parents who sacrificed in order for them to become teachers. Remove the parents in the scenarios and where would you be today? Good health? dead? Those things that others in your life provided you have value. How much is who you are today worth to you? Don't pretend it's worth nothing.