Sheri's Random Rant: Tax Protesters

I've held my peace on this because I figured that I was wasting my time trying to reason with people of this mindset. Few of them do their homework before they get riled up anyway so in the end you are stuck listening not to a genuine concern but ideological pouting in the guise of a genuine concern. If no one will take the time to learn that the concepts of communism and socialism are not interchangeable then what hope do you have for getting them to do anything else. What really gets me is that I am willing to bet that not even half of the people dangling teabags off their hats even qualify for the terrible tax hike that they are convinced will bring them down.How exactly do these people expect the debt to get paid down without taxes? The graduated income tax was created for a reason, not as some gimmick to pick on successful people. THERE WAS NO WERE ELSE TO GET MONEY TO PAY FOR THINGS THAT THESE PEOPLE TAKE FOR GRANTED. They protested in parks paid by taxpayer money, this country's military is funded with taxpayer money, the roads that they drove on were created with taxpayer money. If any of these geniuses have a realistic way of generating money to fund little things like this, I would really like to hear it. Oh, and spare everyone with the "lower taxes will fix the economy" mantra. Unless you have been in a coma for eight years we've already tried that. I believe it was Einstein who said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

I can forgive a lot of things, but not active stupidity.