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The first one was fine. It’s your opinions that are total crap.

How taxation is enforced (at least in the US) is draconian. How our tax money is spent, and often wasted, is definitely concerning. But asking that citizens pay into a pot for social services available to said citizens is not inherently evil.

Taxes were much higher in the past. During WWII the top tax rate was 92% for those making $200k a year. In the 90's the top tax rate was 28%, now it’s capped at 43%.

Why are taxes evil?

Taxes are inherently good. They are a check on oligarchy, aristocracy, and power. The fact that, over the past 50 year’s taxes have gone down and income differentials have gone up is no coincidence, it’s causation.

“I think the right way to phrase that would be: “Tax funded programs that benefit the taxpayers are inherently good”.”

As a liberal myself, I would actually qualify this in that “benefit” means that an alternative method of arriving to the conclusion without government interference (or a method with less government…

Not the best way to phrase it but he isn’t wrong.

The person making eight figures who brings in nine figures with the difference going to someone worth ten figures is definitely underpaid.

If you’re creating billions of dollars of value, a $10 million annual salary is too low.

Four Championships > Three Championships

I think Jalopnik is the only blog where you ask a simple question and it gets answered by 37 people, 36 of which didn’t check to see if someone already answered it.

NASCAR has wet weather tires for all non oval events. So that means they will run in the rain there if necessary so therefore all their cars are required to have wipers attached.

There’s a better play, the bully pulpit is not just limited to Presidents. Schumer is the minority leader, he could be attacking Trump’s nominees and challenging the legitimacy of a President nominating a Justice while under investigation. He has a platform from which to contest this in the court of public opinion.

Goddamn, these people think that Senate is like Tinkerbell and, if just wish hard enough, the majority Republicans will magically not be able to confirm a new justice.

THERE ARE NO REPUBLICAN ALLIES ANYMORE!

Compromise? Republican allies? None of that is anything Mitch McConnell does. The entire premise of McConnell’s leadership is to bully everything he can through based on his majority. He has never once attempted any good faith effort at appealing to Democrats or looking for a bipartisan compromise. All he cares…

How will that work with democrats in the minority? By my count they need a republican or 2 to vote no.

Do you really not see the basic flaw in your premise?

Yes, but that’s still subject to exactly the same math that the post to which you’re responding noted.