FAIL: Obama will alleviate tax burden on "the middle class" by taxing "the rich"

I am "the rich". I'm a single guy making more than $45,000/yr gross ($45K being the lowest income tax bracket at which Obama's tax increases begin). Who do you think those taxes are going to be coming from? When Obama and Biden talk about subsidizing your mortgage or helping you pay for your gas, where do you think that money's coming from? Hi. Nice to meet you.

Now, you might argue that this is actually to my benefit, that I myself end up with a better life in the long run by investing in "society at large". If that's your argument, then I should get to choose the amount and the recipients, and ultimately act on my own assessment of rate-of-return. Conservatives donate 30% more to charity than Liberals, partly because we believe that safe neighborhoods and prosperous communities grow from individuals, not from government initiatives. But taxation is not "investment". If it was, you'd be able to show me a cost/benefit analysis and get my money willingly. You wouldn't need to pry it out of my paycheck with a proverbial crowbar.

Oh, and, if you think that it's "only right" that I should pay more, not because I necessarily get anything out of it but  because we all have a moral duty to help one another... you can kindly go take your moral code and shove it up your self-righteous ass, you dogmatic piece of shit. I accept that I have no choice but to submit to the government's consensus-driven tax policy, and that they will take more from me than they take from most others. But to suggest that I should be happy about it because I'm serving some kind of Higher Good, and to argue that I should give my vote to a man who will make it worse for me in contribution to some "greater interest"? Not. Fucking. Persuasive.


 
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