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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][/quote]Montgomery County has half a billion dollars sitting in its rainy day fund.  I’d hardest call that broke.  It has more money socked away for the future than counties and cities in Virginia.[/quote]

Reading is fundamental
https://aminerdetail.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/SAGE-Policy-Report-January-2019.pdf
I can have 500M tucked away and owe 500B
Or I can have 20M tucked away and owe 10M
Who is better off?
Amazon was MoCos only way out of a horrible financial mess.[/quote]

The problem is that expectations of standards of living are too high. They need to be brought down. Income redistribution through tax policy is one way of achieving that. MoCo wouldn’t have been better with HQ2, it just would’ve had more money. More money is not the answer, if it means more money for some people only. If I ruled a hypothetical place where I had 100 people, and 12 of them were super wealthy, 13 of them were middle class, and 75 of them were poor, I would seize the wealth of the 25 middle and upper class, and distribute it among the 75 poor, bringing a few people down, and most people up. That’s how you achieve fairness. That’s what equality looks like. We teach children in kindergarten this. It’s not a difficult concept. We need political leadership with the courage to do the same. [/quote]

This country is not based on the idea of equal outcomes.  And neither is fairness about equal outcomes.  Sorry.  If you are teaching your children that everybody is entitled to the same, you are teaching them to be feel entitled and spoiled.  You have to work hard, every day, for what you get. [b] So, you would distribute money from super wealthy and middle class to the poor simply because the poor do not have enough. [/b] The right answer is to figure out how we, as a society, can support the poor in their efforts to become better off.  The US does not stand for equality of outcomes.

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Absolutely, positively, yes. And if you can’t understand why, then YOU are the problem.

You are a dinosaur, and your way of thinking is anachronistic. Just like country clubs. [/quote]

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