My dream is that one day people will realize that paying your taxes is patriotic.
And that people who are against paying their taxes are anti-American.
The fire department and the police department and the post office and the school system and the EPA and Social Security and Medicare and the interstate highway system and the Hoover Dam and NASA and Seal Team Six are all good things, and they are paid for with our taxes.
So if the super wealthy have to pay a little higher tax rate than the working poor, so be it.
What is more important, that American children get an education, that our people get healthcare, that roads and bridges get fixed, that advanced materials research be done, that our military be supplied with the best equipment, that old people be taken care of, that our debt be paid down, that food and water be safe, that our environment be clean, or that a billionaire gets a new yacht?
What kind of education are American kids getting right now? The problem with the left is if you ask them why education sucks they will tell you its underfunded. You ask them how much they need and they can never tell you. The problem is always that its underfunded.
We don't need the EPA. I have full faith that individual states could handle that better than the federal government. Social security is the worst investment you can make... its even worse than putting your money in a bank. I don't need the USDA either... and I love the buzz word "Yacht". The guy who owns the business building the yacht, the guy who cleans them, the companies that repair them, the resturants on the pier all disagree with you. In fact, they are quite sure that the billionare getting the yacht keeps food on their table and keeps them from being a slave to the entitlement system you promote.
I'll tell you what is not patriotic. Someone who will willingly take money from another American because they didn't prepare themselves to have a life. Someone who stands in line on a cell phone while paying with food stamps. People who get on their laptops to surf the internet while feeding their babies formula, milk and cheese procured with the plunder provided them by the government in the form of WIC. Lets talk about the dad who hits up the bar while his son is getting reduced or free meals at school.
I am not going to tell you what I do for a living. I will tell you that when my ex-wife got pregnant and I could qualify for WIC and food Stamps, I sold my project car instead of becoming a burden on the backs of my fellow Americans. Don't you lecture me about how, when I make it in life... I will be unpatriotic because I don't want to pay for some cheapass's life while he sits around being lazy.
You are right about the Hoover dam, the highway system (to a degree) and the military, to not pay for those things would be unpatriotic... Those are things you can't expect anyone to do themselves.
Mike
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