>RE: You know what's wild? My tax returns this year were GREAT.
>I'll probably have a good return next year too cause my
>income has gone up again.
>
>However, I still would trade it for:
>
>- M4A
>- $15 Minimum Wage
>- Campaign Finance Reform
>- Tuition Free Public Colleges and Universities
>- Protection of Abortion
>- Anti-Interventionalism
>- Consensus on Green New Deal
>
>for starters.

I have this exact discussion fairly often with my more conservative or moderate friends. The dumber ones will play the "why don't you just give all your money to (poor people/minorities/gay people/whoever) if you care so much ?" card. The smarter ones will play that same card but with slightly more nuance and intelligence.

Either way it's like uhhh no, idiots, that's not how it works. But I will always vote "against" my own interests if that vote is for the greater good overall, and the person receiving my vote seems to mirror my general principles and morals. For example, all of the things you listed above +more. The point is that everyone should be contributing to the greater good, and if so we'd all be better off in the longterm. Hence why "against" is in quotes above. Cause IMO even if in the short term I'm taking money out of my own pocket to contribute to these social programs, it will benefit me and EVERYONE in the longterm rather than just ... me and other white people.


>Just saying even with the influence of more money in my pocket
>I still would rather see a country that works for everybody
>with less income inequality and disparity. For ME to feel like
>I'm screaming at seniors and youths to help them get more
>social security and paid education through college is really
>exhausting when going against a media machine that calls
>everything socialist except for corporate subsidies.
>
>I can definitely be influenced though, hopefully by things of
>substance.