Originally posted by Eternal Idol
These poor and working-class people love to imagine themselves in a position of wealth. They seem to argue about taxes, the minimum wage, labor laws, and such from that perspective, instead of from their current spread-eagle position in which they're getting ****ed by the wealthy they defend.[b]"The more a person deems absolute equality among all people to be a desirable condition, the further left he or she will be on the ideological spectrum. The more a person considers inequality to be unavoidable or even desirable, the further to the right he or she will be". --Roderick Stackelberg
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It goes deeper then that.
A tax credit program for the elderly was just cut. mayor is still obligated to pay for it by law, just without state support.
So he refused to pay. A lot of elderly are saying "Why couldn't they cut it from those other handouts? Free food for kids in schools.
I feel for the kids, but why do I got to pay for it? Us seniors paid in, and now they're screwing us? Screw someone else!"