Callinectes
Proud MAGA Semi-Facist
Yes, I could be more patronizing, but do you really want me to? And most of those problems you want to throw money at? They are addressed by state and local taxes, and I don't care if people can't pay their dang college tuition(except for veterans). Your 87K unsafe bridges? I pay almost 7 bucks per tank of gas in fed and state taxes, what the hell are they using that money for? I don't mind paying taxes, I am a net consumer of tax dollars by way of a military pension and now a job with the state, in a few years I shall retire and collect another pension from the state, and a few years after that social security. In fact, after I retire, I'll be making more money sitting on my well toned muscular ass than when I was working(By the way, that would be a good time to MEANS TEST my income and see if they could trim a few hundred bucks off my social security). I reiterate, I don't mind paying taxes, I mind how my tax dollars are spent, and I am TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY!(See what I did there? TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY, T.E.A.! that's the motto of the Tea Party!)Could you be anymore patronizing"
You live in a country whose government, government regulations, interstate highway system, education system. state and local governments and the police and fire departments in those jurisdictions have made it possible for you to amass whatever it is that you think the government is coming to take away from you. Under the rules that you agree to be staying in this country, remember if you don't like it here you can always leave. For instance you could migrate to Mexico which actually has the highest inequality; instead of America which only has the second highest inequality, in the world. Or you can pay your taxes to live in what so many mistakenly call the "greatest" country in the world. If you stay; you have to pay. If your taxes go up then make more money or leave. That is what the right wingers here keep telling me, if I don't like it here I can leave, no one is forcing me to stay here and no one is forcing you to stay in America. It's really that simple. Our infrastructure is collapsing all around us: over 87,000 bridges in America have been deemed unsafe, college tuition has gone through the roof, students need tens of thousands of dollars in student loans to complete their degrees, part time jobs don't pay enough to cover the cost of books let alone tuition, K-12 schools are closing all over the country as municipalities are forced to cut costs, and state and local governments cannot make ends meet while idiots like you claim that taxes are too high. Pay up or move!