This is your life on progressivism...

[Lukey]

Taxed, almost literally, to death! This kind of stress can not be good for you:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-17/frustrated-illinois-taxpayers-pay-property-tax-1-bills

And these aren't rich fatcats (although McGrath is a small business owner so I guess the left is like "ef him." But seriously, this is fiscal insanity! Tax and spend and waste and spend and tax and waste and spend and tax some more. This won't end well. The progressives look at all the wealth in this country and think they can help themselves to ever bigger slices of it, but the fact is that most of the wealth is at the very top. And those people can live anywhere they want. And there will always be someplace willing to let them live in a low tax environment (maybe eventually it will be outer space). But they will not pay. It's the hard working professional class and the small business owners who bear the brunt of wasteful government and out of control welfare. And they will eventually start to give up. And then you will get this:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/deaths-arrests-looting-erupts-venezuela-110904468.html

Your society is breaking down around you, my progressive friends. You just can't see it yet, but the evidence is there. This won't end well...

 

[Lukey]

Crickets from the lefty peanut gallery. This is what you people push - this IS your agenda! Step up and defend it - explain how this ends well!

Nothing! And then when this slips down the page you all will be back here advocating for more of the big governmentism that is driving these cities, states, and even countries to economic and fiscal ruin. Pathetic!

 

[Deleted member 21794]

Taxed, almost literally, to death! This kind of stress can not be good for you:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-17/frustrated-illinois-taxpayers-pay-property-tax-1-bills

And these aren't rich fatcats (although McGrath is a small business owner so I guess the left is like "ef him." But seriously, this is fiscal insanity! Tax and spend and waste and spend and tax and waste and spend and tax some more. This won't end well. The progressives look at all the wealth in this country and think they can help themselves to ever bigger slices of it, but the fact is that most of the wealth is at the very top. And those people can live anywhere they want. And there will always be someplace willing to let them live in a low tax environment (maybe eventually it will be outer space). But they will not pay. It's the hard working professional class and the small business owners who bear the brunt of wasteful government and out of control welfare. And they will eventually start to give up. And then you will get this:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/deaths-arrests-looting-erupts-venezuela-110904468.html

Your society is breaking down around you, my progressive friends. You just can't see it yet, but the evidence is there. This won't end well...

And coincidentally, the very wealthy have the DC hacks paid off anyway. It always cracks me up how leftists cheer about increasing taxes on the rich. The very rich know how to dodge these taxes anyway- they have 75,000 pages to do so with.

As you stated, it's the hard working professional class and business owners who get hit the hardest.

Leftists are absolutely CLUELESS on economic matters. But I'm sure that's even more evident to you as an actual economist than a lay person like me who simply understands things like when you mandate higher wages, less workers will have jobs.

 

[Lukey]

And coincidentally, the very wealthy have the DC hacks paid off anyway. It always cracks me up how leftists cheer about increasing taxes on the rich. The very rich know how to dodge these taxes anyway- they have 75,000 pages to do so with.

As you stated, it's the hard working professional class and business owners who get hit the hardest.

Leftists are absolutely CLUELESS on economic matters. But I'm sure that's even more evident to you as an actual economist than a lay person like me who simply understands things like when you mandate higher wages, less workers will have jobs.

Yep! The super wealthy, corporate oligarchs, entertainers, and the elite government class can largely control the negative effects of super progressive taxation on their incomes (they simply raise their prices and offset the lost income from the increased taxes). The upper middle class professionals and small business owners have no such ability to do so, so they are always the ones who bear the brunt of the socialist decline.

It's funny how the left is all over every thread in sight except for this one and the other on the reduced GDP scoring. It almost kind of makes you wonder why?

Nah! I know exactly why - they know their ideology has produced these deleterious economic effects and they just want to pretend everything is okay so they can continue to destroy America.