CMV:CMV: Conservatives don't believe that they are deserving of better lives unless it comes through some abstract concept of 'work'.. taking for granted all the ways in which life has gotten generally better for humanity since the beginning of time

For one thing, I suspect that at this point in my life, I've got more skin in the game than you. That is, unless your rich dad is giving you handouts. This is admittedly judging superficially based on your failure to read the Hohfeldian piece to discern the difference between your and my understanding of legal rights, and your failure to see that by having no people advocating for a 0% tax rate it follows that no one is claiming to have had 'no help' (Obama's obvious straw man in the video). You also wrote gambit instead of gamut, though I always hate to critique others' writing. Basically, my point is that I doubt you're reviewing mergers and acquisitions or admitting people into the hospital with that level of detail-orientedness. I could be dead wrong, but I'm probably not.

For another thing, you appear to assume that if I make less, it ought to make a difference that more of your money is being confiscated than mine. It doesn't. And ultimately, however bad the Repubs are, it's the Democrats who are always and without fail pushing for the confiscation of huge amounts of OPM to service their policy preferences. You seem unwilling to accept the balance at stake in defining how much OPM you can decide to spend (i.e. how much help warrants how much of a tax rate?).

Having lived my whole life in blue cities and in Canada, most of my friends are liberals (not my dad's friends who I hold in quiet disdain). I regularly interact with people who display quite clearly that reasonable people can disagree on metaphysical matters, respect each other and get along. The way you paint conservatives with such a broad brush makes this seem laughably implausible to me.

My point about volunteerism stands because it appears quite clear that government programming takes away moral agency, centralizes responsibility for very decentralized problems and so decays the communitarian, volunteering impulse. This is probably related to why republicans tend to give more to charity than democrats.

Your last post suggests you're going to continue hurling tired tropes. Like your patently sarcastic comment about the world being ashamed of us juxtaposed with an empty apology, your cialis joke, or your presumption that I am just itching to assume you're a 'welfare queen'. On the contrary: the impression you're giving is that of an elitist limousine liberal who thinks a) all my accomplishments are not satisfactorily earned to have a say in how much of my labor I get to keep b) that your policy prescriptions justify taking more and more money without my input.

I won't be reading your reply, so don't bother. And as for my earnings: Molon Labe.

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