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They voted conservative, what did they expect?
If you want your life to get better, you vote left, if you want it to get worse, you vote right.
We've got the whole 20th century as evidence of this
Well.
It depends on your tax bracket and property values, doesn't it?
I'm in the top bracket, tax me more, the world gets better when you do
But also, frankly maybe tax wealth over work.
Work is productive to society, wealth is parasitic.
Property values (sensibly) go down with appropriate wealth tax.
If taxes could buy society s goodwill, I d hope they d be a bit pricier
i'm in the lowest tax bracket, but someday I'll be on the top... 🤦
There another option, you believe only the local rich employer can help you.
Grew up in a small town with only one big employer. If they said bigger taxes would mean layoffs, will the town hated the idea of bigger taxes., because the employer was seen as the only things keeping a respectable and comfortable lifestyle possible in the community.
Welfare was both inadequate and shameful, and other than that, they didn't see upside to government spending. The big projects they see were things like building a big bypass for a big city to have better traffic. Meanwhile all the infrastructure spending closer to home was less dramatic. The roads thanklessly kept drivable without any dramatic news coverage. The local medical center kept afloat by federal spending without anyone really highlighting that. Easy to make the narrative that big government takes your money and gives it to city folk, and anything the employer does to the community is forced by big bad government.
Sometimes I wonder if taxes aren't really about redistributing wealth, but about testing the limits of our endurance
Yes, when the rich get a flat tax and you're taxed at the same rate as people earning millions a year. (You're already in a higher bracket than the very wealthy, since they pay capital gains taxes and use tricks like borrowing money instead of selling stocks to get cash.)
Then they just say "oh yeah this is a high tax rate for me since I'm poor right now, but it will stay the same no matter how much I make!"
If you want your life to get better, you need to stop relying on politics.