matthewr87
Well-Known Member
I agree with the sentiment and spirit of your post, but I personally disagree with the premise that cyclical fluctuations in tax policies and saveur du jour virtue signaling efforts (in our current time surrounding electrification, alternative energy development, and carbon taxes, etc.) amount to government oppression or are signs of democratic backsliding. If anything these are part and parcel of prototypically "Western" democracies where voter bases need to be appeased and lobbyists pandered to.I absolutely get where you are coming from. Cannot imagine the horrors your family experienced and don’t want to experience them first hand.
Those of us born, raised and have lived here in the US for decades look at this very differently.
Accepting the government reaching into your pocket and controlling you in a way that your family were accustomed, doesn’t change the freedoms we’ve grown accustomed and we‘ll fight to keep.
There is a reason you are here, it’s not because you liked where you came from. Let things like this slide, over time this country will be like the one you fled.
Based on where you live and your attitude towards not minding reaching into your pocket has labeled you as a very successful person financially. Good on you and what you’ve built. Don’t feel guilty if you want to keep what you’ve worked so hard to earn.
In any event I could move to Saudi Arabia and make 10x what I do now, pay zero income tax, not worry about carbon taxes, and shower in petroleum byproducts to my hearts content, but for obvious (I hope) reasons I prefer to live where I live now
I just take the bad with the good, since the good vastly outweighs the bad. Again, just my opinion. I mean no offense to anybody.
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