Fiscal Republicanism
I’ve resisted the urge, for a long time, to write anything political but I can’t help myself right now. I’ve been wondering what people think about the differences between Republicans and Democrats and I’m starting to conclude that the difference is the value the two place on quality of life. What do I mean by that?
I mean that both sides believe in working hard and choosing solid valuable occupations, but Democrats seem to acknowledge and appreciate that there are people who work hard but not necessarily at financially fruitful occupations for personal or circumstantial reasons whereas many Republicans shrug off the part of the population that earns under $40k/year which makes me wonder: does a doctor deserve preferential tax treatment over an over-the-road truck driver because he is a doctor and has worked for years and years to earn his six figure salary?
They may both work sixty or seventy hour weeks, but one brings home $50k and the other $250k. It seems that people in the super-middle class but sub-wealthy class are very highly concerned with maintaining their quality of life and getting all they can out of their money regardless of what that does to the lower income part of the population. On the other hand, there are a great number of multi-millionaires who donate freely–regardless of their motivation for doing so–and assist the middle and sub-middle class people which helps make up for the upper middle-class that fights for keeping every dollar in their own pockets.
Here’s the blog post I read that made me consider this issue.
http://www.lolife.com/blog/archives/000002.html
What a crazy world.
