There is a way for the purple voter to come into the light.
It has zero to do with guns.
It has nothing to do with TSA feeling up your daughter when flying to see Granny.
It has little to do with the green new deal.
It has some relation to nationalized healthcare.
The way to really get folks attention is to raise their taxes until their eyes bleed. I ain't talking about small business I am specifically pointing to personal income taxes for those collecting a pay check on Friday, even low income folks that now pay nothing in Fed taxes.
If congress can really hurt the bottom line of suburban American workers, make them suffer under the burden, make it hurt their families all while Pelosi tells them it is for thier own good they might just open one eye. Cut the take home pay to the point they can't afford the newest Iphone or 99" super-duperTV and watch them howl like a wounded bear at the voting booth.
Unfortunately, the (R) party is corrupt, completely useless and rudderless. The (D), (R) masters tore the Tea Party asunder. The next party to rise must have such a groundswell of support the (D) and (R) masters would never know what hit them at the voting booth.
That is the way I see things changing. The only way to get folks off the couch and pay attention to what their Federal Government is doing to them and what it is COSTING them.
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There has been no consequence for bad behavior. That started from child birth to adult. A good talking behind the woodshed is what would preserve the future.
The same would have to apply to our current politicians. Maybe bringing back the "buggy whip" wouldn't be so bad.
But no, a new party of "fools" will not fix the issue. Only consequences for the bad behavior will stop the bad behavior.
I think that will surely take place. I heard on the radio that Biden is giving away all kinds of stuff and he has hired Burney to handle the money. I am going to sign up for all the free stuff I can get. Cheese, food stamps, obama phone, whatever I can get. Hell if they will pay me to go back to school I might give that a whirl. Knowing what I know now I could rule a collage campus.
Don't forget your vote.. there's extra money...if they are going to rule.. make sure you make them pay for it...
Everyone else does..
Actually they don’t even need to raise taxes. I would just propose that there is no withholding from paychecks.
Make everyone have to pay over their taxes after they get their pay.
You would be surprised how many people don’t even know how much they pay in taxes when it is taken out of their pay.
They pay attention when they have to write a check for the taxes.
I have to make quarterly estimated tax payments and I almost cry every quarter when I write the check.
I have said for decades, since I was a business owner with many employees, that if the American worker was handed a check on Friday with a list of all taxes, including hidden employer loads, SSI, Medicare, UI, State, Local and all the others it would be interesting.
All the employer has to do is attach a list to the check and tell the employee he has five days to submit the payments to the Feds, state and Local Governments.
There would be open revolt against taxation and spending within two weeks.
And that is precisely why it will never be done. Just like when these fools race down to buy a new car. Don't care how much the total is, how much will my payment be and how long can we stretch it out for. People are basically stupid. But they are very good at justifying pretty much anything to match their decisions. I will buy that $65,000.00 truck cause I can write it off. Do the math bubba.
Joe Buyme is President now.. everything will be fine..
Although it is not on topic I will say this. When buying a new car people are in the "ether" of buying, it lasts about 90 days. Once they sit down to negotiate a price they are had, need turns to want, a powerful emotion, restraint goes out the window. As a once successful car salesman I can tell you this. People in the "ether" of "want" have nothing that will deter them. If someone said they could afford no more than $400 a month it was easy to get them to $500. Stop buying new cars and the prices will drop like a rock. Taxes and Government regulations on cars cost us BILLIONS each year. It is the way it works, good, bad or indifferent.
How much per month is the dumbest way to buy anything.
Same with taxes. People never look at what is taken by force of law, including me!
If I had to cut the checks, send them in to the "authorities" and see how much was legally taken from me every week I would be livid and screaming for all to elected masters to hear. They do not want to hear it, they can ignore it. Because it is "deductions" we have been trained to simply ignore them and look at the bottom line on the check. We can then figure out how to make our lives work around what pittance we are left, the scumbags took the rest.
It is a human, animal response. Deal with the result, hope to live another day and make do with what you have.
Government never does that. It feeds itself first and leaves you the table scraps from your labor, much like the puppy you just got from the shelter, and paid for, now you pay a dog license fee! Folks are happy to get the bone, like the puppy, while Government got the prime meat. The puppy is happy to have a home, food, water and not be beat. We are much the same.
Soon food and water might be an issue for big city dwellers as the USA infrastructure crumbles because all of their monthly payments have been frittered away and the Elected Masters got very rich.
See Flint Michigan water and those charged with crimes as a prime example.
I agree with most of what you said.
However, you said, "...The next party to rise must have such a groundswell of support the (D) and (R) masters would never know what hit them at the voting booth..."
The voting booth is no longer a part of the equation. We showed up in force at the last election and it was stolen from us. Now that the dims are in charge they will further perfect the "steal".
I'll repeat what I have said before, "WE ARE DOOMED".
It's going to be a dictatorship!
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When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.”
― Benjamin Franklin