Two major tenets of Progressivism are:
- It is the job of the wise bureaucrats in government to protect people from themselves and their own decisions or free will.
- The more you tax people, the better, because the goverment knows how to better spend the money than you.
Here is billionaire Michael Bloomberg hitting his zenith using both of these idea to explain why the poor need to have their taxes raised for their own good.
Left Wing Billionaire Michael Bloomberg: Raising Taxes on Poor People is a "Good Thing." pic.twitter.com/GcO9xT3vkl
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 23, 2018
My god this guy is a totalitarian piece of shit.
Wow, just wow…
“My god this guy is a totalitarian piece of shit.” as are Ms. Botox and those economists applauding him.
Paraphrasing Dr. Ian Malcolm: Bloomie is one big pile of shit.
In his essay “A Nation of Cowards” Jeff Snyder explains :
“The liberal elite know that they are philosopher-kings. They know that the people simply cannot be trusted; that they are incapable of just and fair self-government; that left to their own devices, their society will be racist, sexist, homophobic, and inequitable — and the liberal elite know how to fix things. They are going to help us live the good and just life, even if they have to lie to us and force us to do it. And they detest those who stand in their way.”
His NYC accent alone makes me irate. Thankfully we won’t sound like that in upstate NY, we have more of a Midwest/Ohio drawl.
And like most wannabe aristocrats/ nomenklautra, the rules are only for the little people, never themselves.
They both agreed that they want the “little people” to live longer, and the way to do that was to tax the hell out of them. Of course *they* want to live longer—they have yachts and mansions.
Why do they think that the poor people in their hovels and public housing neighborhoods want to live an extra 30 years—so that they can pay more taxes? What about the hardworking people who are proudly not on the government dole, but are only a few dollars past the poverty line—should we tax the hell out of them and drive them into poverty, so that they can live longer and pay more taxes?