Admit you voted for Biden

[basballguy]

(06-20-2022, 02:37 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I've heard some people say they don't want to "pay for someone else to go to college" if it means increasing taxes to pay for it.


But yes, I would assume nearly everyone feels that the cost of college is too high.
A big reason for that is because banks were (are) willing to loan out the money if students couldn't pay for it themselves, so colleges didn't feel the need to lower their costs. They knew they'd get the money one way or another.

When you're a country who has a core principle surrounding the concept of "make as much money as possible," it's no surprise that most people/companies don't try to keep costs lower out of the kindness of their heart.
Greed really is the American dream.

Ok but then that's impacted their bottom line...which is what you said the baseline of how the GOP votes.  I also agree, increasing my taxes to do literally anything is a bad idea.  We do not need any more taxes....

It's easy for people hanging out around the poverty level to say "ya sure, increase taxes" because they already aren't paying much.  It's not a balanced system.  

Separately, the idea of programs that help the needy is that those programs (or tax rates) help them catch up with the rest of society they fell behind....or worst case not fall further behind.  

If they are living there in perpetuity, then is it the programs' (or tax rates) fault?  Unlikely.  How does introducing new taxes or programs help?   The perception is it won't....so all you did was add another burden on the middle class and subsequently raising the bar for those at poverty to actually reach middle class....which now causes people to be more concerned about their bottom line since they know that bar is going to continue to rise.  

You can call it capitalism.  I call it self preservation.