Progressive Politics

You shouldn't be objecting to taxes. Taxes are good - that's how public services get funded, for example, and social programs, lunches for kids, medical care for people who can't afford it... All of these are examples of good uses of taxes, and if we lowered taxes to minimal levels, all of these things are what would get cut.

What you should be objecting to is the egregious spending on things like corporate handouts, subsidies for sectors that shouldn't be getting them, endless wars and utterly insane military budgets, executives contributing billions of dollars to their own slush funds in the name of "peace"...

Basically, corruption and warmongering - that's the umbrella this all falls under, generally speaking.

So what you then should ask yourself is, which party or candidate supports this behavior, and which does not? Vote for the one that does not.

A little more in taxes is not worth worrying about

• I have the empathy to want some of my tax money to help keep even the most downtrodden in living conditions.
• I’m proud that every time someone talks about the much higher quality of life in Scandinavia, I’m able to claim that my state invests in its people enough to be right up there with them.
• I’m happy some of my taxes go toward investing in upcoming generations, that we have among the best or the best education systems in the country
• I really really want to invest in universal healthcare.

My state is clearly high cost of living but I generally consider it a good investment. More importantly most of the costs are things like housing - taxes may be higher than other places but my income is much higher and taxes are a much smaller piece of that pie that say housing.

If you’re worried about high cost of living, there are many worthwhile things to address before worrying about taxes

As an example, my state enacted a millionaires tax, but the money is earmarked for free school lunches and transit. All very welcome investments. Granted I’m not a millionaire but it’s also really not that high

Red states have these things too, just not all of them. My state is staunchly red, has yearly vehicle inspection requirements, and we continually pay to subsidize coal companies taking on projects (under the assumption they will pay to clean up the used land once done), only for the LLC to go bankrupt and the state get handed a bill. We have a gas tax, and are in the top half of all states in the amount. We don't have recreational weed, but we have medical, however the rules around it basically guaranteed only out of state companies could open places, funneling money from the state (you needed $1 million in CASH on top of your start up funding to even be considered for a license). Some people just refuse to introspect and look for the easy way out, i.e. blame immigrants and Democrats. Trump has come here often, and made plenty of promises, delivered on none of them. Nothing has gotten cheaper, we're cutting sweetheart deals to data centers, and these idiots will continue to elect coal barons and millionaires because they get permission to hate the right people from them.

If you have money you aren't worried about taxes going up. Those folks are poors in denial.

Vote Democrat. Push for wealth tax. This is a class war (they should understand that) and we have a better chance to make progress with the Dems.

I rather like having funded schools, libraries, cultural centers, and mundane things like roads that won't destroy my car driving over holes. It seems like a damn fine idea to provide safety nets for those with less, hell at one point I was one of those who had to decide if I got gas or milk that week. The mentality of minimal taxes basically can be summed up as 'fuck you, I got mine' which is a mighty crass way to look at things.