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In response to
"You’re not rich but you’re also not wanting for either right? My rule is that if you or your spouse can tap mom or dad for help you just don’t face t"
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JackDawson
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I think it's just the flipside of the older and the rich who might vote GOP.
Posted by
ty97
Mar 4 '20, 09:56
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It's voting in self-interest. Bernie has many proposals (M4A, college debt dismissal, etc) that benefit a lot of young people (not just young people though) and that's appealing. I've seen some non-young people be all dismissive of that on the interwebs along the lines of "look at those selfish youth!"
But look at the old and the rich voting GOP. Why are many doing it?
- To keep taxes on their wealth as low as possible
- To avoid more / cu social services (as part of goal of the previous item) *that they don't need*
- Don't touch my Medicare or my Social Security.
It the same thing. And those voters also won't really own up to what they are doing. They explain their disdain of M4A as "well think about how long we will have to wait for medical care" instead of "I'm happy with my insurance, don't want my taxes to go up, and don't care if other don't have health care"
Yes, your friends should be willing and able to admit not just the benefit by the cost of the proposals they support. But they certainly are not unique among generations/groups that don't do that.
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