not that you are saying this but the concern about the tax burden on the middle class - I don't get it. I'm making a decent living now. I don't feel taxed hard at all. I was thinking about this earlier today or yesterday, how these people I work with bitch about taxes. And when I look at my income, how much fucking disposable income I have compared to when I made a fraction of what I now make, I just get pissed off at the fucking sheltered idiocy of these people.
I wrote about this on the blog a couple of years ago, something related, not about taxes but about income and the audacity of people who make 6 figure incomes to ever DARE "sympathize" with someone scraping buy on, say, $30k. I always used to sympathize with wankers with uppermiddle class professional jobs who'd complain about money. They write me and tell me how Haaaaaaaaaaaard it was for them too,. They understood my plight.
oh, fuck them with a football bat.
I always figured it was just like my situation. I never once sat down and figured out what it was these people were actually making and how different their take home pay was from mine, not to mention the benefits they had compared to mine - which were ZERO. Why the fuck I thought that, I don't know. Why the fuck it didn't occur to me to consider the differences, I don't know. Egoism? Beats me.
Well, then I started making money, money that wasn't even half of what some of these wankers made, and I wanted to puke on their shoes. They have no fucking idea and it's a fucking insult to tell someone who makes $30k a year that you get it when you make $150k a year - and I don't care if the cost of living's different. I've now lived in a low cost of living place and a high cost of living place. you're always much better off living in high cost of living - if you make a good income.
> "curious about the bumper stickers that say, "atlas shrugged" with the
> date of the 2008 election on them, I googled and found this:
>
> http://washingtonindependent.com/32772/battling-obama-by-going-galt"
>
> Yeah, well, the drift toward an underground economy is totally
> comprehensible
> given the degree of taxation the middle class is subject to and the
> services they
> derive from that -- not much.
>
> But, what no-one remembers about Atlas Shrugged is that, at the
> end, when all the "creative" people are off to the hidden valleys
> of Colorado, what enables them to survive is the discovery of an
> infinite
> supply of energy. So, the problem of actual drone work remains; Rand
> simply produces an energia ex machina to supply what normal
> workers would. That way the creative people can remain creative
> without dirtying their hands.
>
> Endless cluelessness....
>
> Joanna
>
>
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