Tax Parity, Anyone?
I don't know about the rest of you out there, but I am mad. No, not mad, furious. It's bad enough that so many people in America apparently want George W. Bush to remain president. But their reasoning makes it appalling, atrocious, scary, horrible. In particular I speak of the people who voted for him based solely on the belief that they were fulfilling their religious duty. They really piss me off. The message these people seem to be sending is that they are indifferent to the position of this country in the rest of the world, they don't care about their own material well-being, all they care about is having a president who shares their religious beliefs and will act to codify them in US law. And it isn't just legislation. These people are likely to have the opportunity to remake the US Supreme Court into a body that may well sanction this sanctification of America. Well, I have a message to all of you people out there in those Red States, you don't care about anything but your spiritual well-being in the next world, than stop taking money from those of us who you despise. Let's remake federal expenditures into some sort of nice tax parity: if your state pays N dollars into the federal budget, you get at most N dollars back. Some of that money has to pay down the debt, and I bet that a lot of us in those big blue states are sick of carrying your deadweight. You don't like the way we live, see how you do without us.
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