64% of people think we should raise taxes on someone else. I’m shocked.
Got a friend that claims to be conservative. But he’ll vote for increased taxes for others. This is Oregon, so the loons are the majority. It apparently hasn’t dawned on him that he keeps voting for candidates that lose, but he usually ends up on the majority side of ballot initiatives.
“64% of people think we should raise taxes on someone else.”
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And it is especially easy when that “someone else” is an evil “millionaire”.
Once upon a time, when the United States still vaguely resembled a meritocracy, people of accomplishment were actually admired and emulated.
Then came the hippies, the Norman Lears, the counterculture, the Howard Zinns, the ACLU, and good became bad, up became down, right became wrong, ad naueseum....