"Commonly accepted" by right wing pundits, neo-con economists and the like
> who unfortunately dominate public discourse in this fucking country. I
> doubt, however, that you will find such a term in, say, John Kenneth
> Galbraith.
You're wrong, of course:
I can understand right wing trolls ranting against taxes but it really
> pisses me off when self-styled lefities pick up that rant. But then again,
> one of the most iritating and idiotic aspects of the US (and English
> speaking I may add) left is its cocky individualism and irrational visceral
> hatred of anything public, not to mention institutional. It is irritating
> and idiotic, because the left has no chance against the right in playing
> that game - yet insist on paying it and then gets pissed when it keeps
> losing to the point of total irrelevance.
You're the one complaining about the federal government using tax revenues from wealthier states to make public investments in poorer ones.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."