Quote:I want more money in my paycheck after taxes

 

that's enough for me to jettison Socialist Sanders from my list of candidates

 

and that should be enough for every American

 

do you not understand that dude wants to take your hard-earned money?

No, I'm a complete idiot who just likes Bernie Sanders because he has crazy hair. Is that what you want to hear? Yes, I understand that Sanders' tax plan includes a tax hike for everyone. I understood that long before he said anything about it. Frankly, all of these nitwits are going to have to raise taxes to balance the budget and continue to provide essential funding, let alone fund their pet projects like that stupid southern fence that won't stop four-legged coyotes, let alone two-legged ones. Sanders is just being honest about it instead of telling the masses what they want to hear.

 

Again, I am a straight up single-issue voter. My litmus test is what the candidates will do to overhaul/dismantle the Department of Homeland Stupidity. That's not to say there's no circumstance in which I wouldn't vote for Rubio, who is pro-DHS, if certain things fall a given way, but my first priority is to have the laws that enable the DHS burned and put out with the collective urine of the American public, then have it rebuilt from the ground up in a way that puts respect of American citizens and our rights and liberties above the hunt for the elusive turban-donning boogeyman who's going to climb in yo windows, snatch yo people up and make them radical Muslims. He's out there, right? And because he's out there, we should thank the government and its paramilitary TSA, NSA, even local and state police forces for crapping all over our rights in the name of "national security" and "an abundance of caution".

 

No. I refuse to subscribe to that theory, and I refuse to accept that Big Brother is watching us for our own good. Big Brother does not have our best interests at heart. Big Brother wants to exert more and more control over us and creatively dispose of free-thinkers, and every building bombed, every soldier killed, every flag burned is used as another excuse to make that happen. I'll stop there for fear of starting a discussion that would no doubt send most of this forum over the deep end.

 

So, yeah, go ahead and ignore the explanation I gave above and my statement about not agreeing with Sanders or anyone else who proposes anything short of a consumption tax. You asked for an explanation and I gave you one. If it's not what you wanted to hear, good. Welcome to America, where as long as Chris Christie is kept far away from the White House, we still have the illusion of ability to think for ourselves.

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