The AARP is one of the third rails of American politics. Why don't we kill SS and Medicare and outlaw AARP while we're at it?
I'm all for that.
But I am not interested in paying for some freeloaders services, it is as simple as that.
Well maybe you ought to become a REAL Republican and oppose large gov't and increasing federal power and expenditures for social programs. To get where you want, we need to back up at least 71 years.
I do oppose all large govt programs. And I am consistent too, I don't just oppose large programs that don't benefit me. Can you make that same claim?
If I have no say in misc large programs, I think taxation SHOULD BE FAIR. Is that what you think?
The fact is, the generation of people in this country around 30 years ago thought they deserved a free ride, and they passed laws to that effect. Social Security colas were one such law. Proposition 13 another. These revenue redistribution laws taxed the young while giving their deadbeat parents something of a gravy train. Now we have a society where the wealthiest demographic is the elderly, and we consistently pass tax breaks for that class, simply because they are a large voting block. Prop 13 benefits that class, and misc other individuals who inherit property or whatever they do, these people use services galore and have no problem taxing others while they take a free ride.
I can't do anything about prisons, but if I as a taxpayer and my young employees were forced to pay "prison taxes" while the deadbeat california residents from 30 years ago paid nothing, I'd feel the same way about that tax if it existed. I'd be for abolishing it. |
