After buying several dozen yutes each a pair of Air Jordans with my 2012 tax check to the US Treasury, I have since scaled back.
The socialists are depending on work horses like us to pull their Obamacare and entitlement wagon.
Keep in mind that `Boxer’ (from `Animal Farm’) wound up in the glue factory.
You don’t have to be one of Pelosi’s “artists” or “musicians” who will be “free to live and create” ... you just refuse to do as they expect: to pay for it all.
Go mini-Galt: starve the beast.
An example would be someone who works to earn money and doesn't have time to repair a leaking sink drain. The person pays almost 50% of what he makes in taxes and other costs, then from what's left, he pays $85 for a plumber to come to his house (service call) to repair the drain plus $85 hour on top of that to do the actual repair work and a premium for the part (these high rates are due to taxes, license fees, insurance, and ...).
So what this homeowner could have fixed in one hour of his time plus a trip to the hardware store for a $10 part, he winds up working almost two days to pay for a $200 repair job after he works to also pay the taxes on the money he has earned, let's say he makes $25 hour (1 day for the money, 1 day to pay the taxes and other costs of having a job (transportation, clothing, insurance, state income, fed income, ...)).
Just one little example. There are countless more...
All of that to say I completely agree with you. ;)