Time to repeal Reagan's taxes on Social Security/Unemployment Benefits

[KPN]

29. Those are the effects, but I think conservatives really

think everyone should pay their fair share and define that as the same amount regardless of income. They believe everyone has the same opportunity to better themselves financially. They make no distinction between the value of services and infrastructure to poor people vs wealthy people because in their minds they all have equal access to those services and that infrastructure. So they are ideologically opposed to any special benefits (as they see them) for poor and lower income or even middle class people. They also believe that if they don’t need the services, they shouldn’t be required to pay for them; that only those people who need them should pay for them, ie, public education, social security, Medicare/Medicaid. And they believe that all wealth derived from private individual or corporate effort and innovation so those sources of wealth should be freed from requirements that hinder the creation of wealth because wealth is good.

That’s what I think. They actually believe this bullshit which lacks any consideration, regard, appreciation of or empathy for the full myriad of innate inequalities, as well as for the long-term societal consequences which ultimately affect all of us including them. Lacks any ability to see and understand the hypocrisy.

Boiled down it comes to egregiously shallow thinking and consequent lack of empathy; in effect, near total self-centeredness.