River Dog wrote:I agree with some if not most of that. I'm all about opportunity, making information available, giving people choices, etc. After that, I begin to lose sympathy for their plight.
Aseahawkfan wrote:If we made people abide by the consequences of liberty, I'd be with you. But we talk about liberty, but most humans don't want it. They want safe, controlled, protected lives, especially females. Liberty is a male virtue as males hate being told what to do, some to the point they would jump off a cliff to their death if you told them not to. Which is why I understand your sentiment as most of us males hate anyone trying to control us and hate having to pay for some other idiot acting like an idiot. Seems at least one political party named the Democrats feels like getting votes by promising to fix problems by spending more and taxing more and telling us its for our own good and people keep voting for them as their prices keep rising due to these taxes and regulation, so if they're going to force our hand we might as well regulate intelligently to minimize it since the Democrats seem vote for these people that regulate and tax very stupidly where it doesn't fix problems and keeps on requiring more taxes and regulation to try to "fix it more."
Never seen a Democrat say, "We should tax less and regulate less and have a smaller government to do things more efficiently so we don't spend the taxpayer money irresponsibly." You'd never here a Democratic voter admit how badly their party spends money and manages the economy, especially on the state level where every Democratic state and city is run in a way that creates more wealth stratification between rich and poor than Republicans have ever managed to do. A Dem would never admit it.
So only way to deal with that is take over the regulation as the Dems will never cut spending or manage taxation intelligently. They keep adding more taxes when you try to get rid of one or rename it or vote in a backdoor way to get more taxes or fees. Or make up something stupid like carbon credits where you pay money to pollute.
Did you ever read on how Elon Musk manipulated the carbon credit program put in place by Democrats to build Tesla? He sold the carbon credits to other car companies making billions so they could produce more cars using the money to build Tesla stronger. Another way even the Democrats put policies in place the rich take advantage of while the Democrats pretend they are the party that helps the working man.
https://carboncredits.com/teslas-carbon-credit-revenue-soars-to-2-76-billion-amid-profit-drop/
The Dems are a pack of idiots, and the primary reason why we're saddled for that POS Donald Trump.
I see where our Dem state government just passed and signed in a rent control bill limiting how much a landlord can raise his rent in one year. They have no such limitations on property tax increases. All it's going to do is make fewer rentals available as no one in their right mind would rent out a property under the restrictions the Dems have imposed. It already takes an act of Congress to evict a person for failure to pay their rent, now this is going to make it even less attractive for a potential rental property owner. I can't believe how short sighted these idiots are. Can they not put themselves in the position of a landlord?