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The libs are the ones paying the medicaid tax, and who make to much to qualify to use it. The rich don't pay it on the majority of their income. So what we have here is the cost of socialism but none of the benefits on the middle class libs. The rich get sweet crony capitalism paid for by the middle class libs. The elderly happily use medicare + part B, paid for by the middle class libs, and then vote republican. Socialism's benefits with none of it's costs.
I would say republicans have been owning the libs for quite some time. The libs are tapped out though.
I’m happy to pay for that though. Obviously the rich need to pay more or be eaten. But I’m ok with my part in things.
I was ok with it until they started stripping rights from minority groups. I'm personally done subsidizing people who want me and my family destroyed.
Now is the time to look out for me and mine, and I will not vote for any candidate unless they will advocate for the socialist contract for EVERYONE, and package that with putting into law the rights important to me and my family. Either the US becomes a petro-techno-oligarchy or it gets fixed. In the former, I look out for me and don't subsidize people who try to take my rights away, and in the latter we all keep our beliefs from infringing on others and pay our share towards a greater good. I'm not waiting around footing the bill any longer though.
I agree with your sentiment 100%. In principle, though, I don’t think it’s okay to categorize and lump people together based on income bracket, assign them a political ideology because of it, and then discriminate against them on that basis.
In practice, however, at this stage of the game, I’m not sure you’re wrong.
Boomers are the most selfish generation of all time, it was bound to happen as they aged.