01-30-2019, 08:24 AM
In any discussion of politics and taxes, I operate from two strongly held beliefs:
1) All political parties are comprised of thieves whose only real variation is who is going to get fleeced and who is going to derive the benefit; and
2) Your tax money is probably best preserved when at least two, more or less equally power-balanced, gangs are after the same pile of tax money - because, if either one gets too generous to their cohorts, the other will scream bloody murder...
With one party holding all the power, as has been the case for five or so decades here, there really is no accountability...
1) All political parties are comprised of thieves whose only real variation is who is going to get fleeced and who is going to derive the benefit; and
2) Your tax money is probably best preserved when at least two, more or less equally power-balanced, gangs are after the same pile of tax money - because, if either one gets too generous to their cohorts, the other will scream bloody murder...
With one party holding all the power, as has been the case for five or so decades here, there really is no accountability...