09-24-2020, 11:59 AM
I love that peoples' beliefs here are like an Olympic ring Venn diagram. Historically, I've made the mistake of trying to push everyone into two camps - liberal or conservative. Everything is so much more complex than that.
I've always operated on the assumption I'm getting exactly $0 in SS after I retire. That sucks for me, but I know the people getting it likely need it more than me. I say that as someone who has paid ~$250k in Fed/SS/Medicare taxes over the last five years and doesn't believe in highly progressive taxes. Sometimes I just gotta take one for the team, including with my vote.
I've always operated on the assumption I'm getting exactly $0 in SS after I retire. That sucks for me, but I know the people getting it likely need it more than me. I say that as someone who has paid ~$250k in Fed/SS/Medicare taxes over the last five years and doesn't believe in highly progressive taxes. Sometimes I just gotta take one for the team, including with my vote.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth