Now that was a better argument. But I still disagree with you. Not slamming my keyboard at all. Just quietly typing my thoughts.

I do, however, have a pretty good background in law and economics and I don't buy a lot of what you're saying. We'll have to agree to disagree on that because frankly, I don't find this a very useful forum to have a detailed debate that deserves the level of discussion that it needs.

I will say this - I grew up pretty damn poor in a house of 7 kids and one parent. We were on food stamps for a time. I got some, but not much college assistance and worked two to three jobs while I got my undergrad degree. It took me a long time to pay for my law school degree as well. I don't forget where I came from at all and I don't deny the help my family got, especially my mom. But I never pitied myself and I didn't blame anyone. I pay more in taxes today than I made in gross my first year out of college, and I don't like it. Not because of how much I pay, but because of how much of it is wasted. I'd rather give my money to a charity that spends 95% of its money on the charitable work, than on a bureaucracy that spends less than 5% on its purpose and the rest on keeping itself in business. I am not a fan of crony capitalism and I'm not a fan of its evil twin, crony bureaucratism. Both have to go.

But I don't blame pure capitalism - it's what got us the smart phone, the personal computer, ideas like Amazon and Netflix and on and on. That stuff does not happen under a bloated government. You can vote with your pocketbook. That's how McDonalds changed its menu at all ( I still don't like it). You can also vote by voting, which a lot of young people simply do not do. I read and participate in Reddit because I'm interested in what the next generation is thinking, but mostly I see a hell of a lot of complaining instead of action. Knowledge is not wisdom. I wish you well.