OK, this is actually rather old hell, but hell all the same. I knew that this was the bitter and horrifying truth, but that still didn't keep me from screaming.
Note to just every young taxpayer of my generation: We're all pretty much screwed.
On a personal rant ... I'm totally frustrated. Like almost everybody else I know, I have some school debt, and like plenty of my peers, I'm paying all my own bills and living expenses on my own. I'm trying to to pay off that school debt, and I'm trying to save as many pennies as I can ... which aren't a lot of pennies because the cost of living is high and so is the level of taxation in Nerdworld. I'm barely scraping by, and I am frankly flabbergasted at the loopy government that wants to "save" money by spending more of it and enacting measures that will cost the taxpayer ever more money. A vast percentage of my paycheck goes into the government pocket, and in the case of Social Security, I'll never see it again. JUST HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO EVEN THINK ABOUT SAVING FOR MY FUTURE? I'm too busy paying FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S PRESENT. Never mind me even thinking about retirement -- I'll probably be working until I die. I'm too busy paying for other people's retirement. How am I ever going to support a young family of my own? Then I realize that in the Ponzi scheme-tastic universe of huge and increasing government entitlements, my "future" is basically the same as "working myself to exhaustion forever just to pay taxes and other people's bills and programs." It's like death by a thousand paper cuts.
Anyway, since I support myself and actually pay taxes, I apparently count as "rich" and can expect to pay ever more confiscatory taxes to support a system that basically rewards the parasites and slackers and special interests busy suckling at the government teat. I'll tell you this too: despite all the good press it gets from pie-eyed utopian-minded fools, socialism is a morally irresponsible and horribly inhumane approach to life. In it, people want their government-guaranteed goodies and couldn't care less that it's their own children who will be utterly impoverished.
It's time and past time to take this to the ballot box. Get out of the way, Fedzilla, you sticky-fingered, money-guzzling government beast!
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