[Daveinyork]

It’s taxpayers vs tax consumers, and it always has been.

Picture this scenario. You are shovelling snow so that you can get to work. Your neighbor is not shovelling snow. He is the same age as you, but he was a government employee, and is now retired. You cannot afford to retire. You are in the private sector, and it’s your taxes that are funding your neighbor’s retirement. You’re shovelling snow before going to work. He’s in Florida for the winter.

Later, you slip and slide home from work on poorly cleared, or uncleared roads. Remember, your tax money is funding your neighbor’s retirement, not road maintenance, like it is supposed to.

You open your mail box, and there is a post card from your neighbor in sunny Florida. If you do not throw an ice ball through your neighhbor’s window, your restraint is admirable, probably because you are a conservative and you believe in property rights.

Here is a big faultline in the next American civil war.

[central_va]

A Constitution, such as ours, when not followed is worse than no Constitution at all. For the illusion of the protection provided, the Constitution has been bastardized by the SCOTUS for over a century, it now is only a fig leaf for the naked state-st to ply his trade "legally".

We need to stop being so sentimental and look reality in the face or have another Civil War....