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betterlivinglinux 137 points ago +138 / -1

I love my country, but I have hated my government for at least 2 decades.

As a small business owner, I literally felt the government declared war on me and my business.

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learntocode 62 points ago +63 / -1

Affirmative. I think it was after a visit from the tax collector to audit my books and I read that those same taxes were being forgiven for 20 years for a big coporate developer donor project in town - that is when I kind of lost it. These vultures want us dead or nearly so. They don't get my human sympathy anymore and they sure as shit won't get my vote.

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selfstarter20 19 points ago +19 / -0

The middle class family got Hit with a $7200 health care deductible thanks to K-Street lobbyists and world banks.

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learntocode 17 points ago +17 / -0

Near where I live there is a medical clinic for illegal immigrants and the doctor that runs it doesnt keep tight records and doesnt accept insurance - you show up, you have a service, you pay. I see a shit ton of legal.citizens in there these days. Fuck a deductible and fuck tying insurance to employer subsidy. We should stop taxing employment and income generated from labor. I have turned into a bit of a libertarian nut job after running a small service and retail business for about a decade and seeing how this shit show treats the little and middle guys in the economy.

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selfstarter20 1 point ago +1 / -0

So you have distilled our Founding Documents into your success plan. Great. The government has no right to your money.

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johnrambo 23 points ago +24 / -1

Same

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theultimatesean 2 points ago +2 / -0

Same

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selfstarter20 15 points ago +15 / -0

This deep state is coming apart and the illusion is that the government is in control. - Are you really ready?

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GrumpyAmerican 7 points ago +7 / -0

I’m getting old. Let’s do this already while I can still stand upright.

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OhLollyLollyPop 13 points ago +13 / -0

Considering how many are Democrats, I can't care what happens to them. I love the land of our Republic and all who love the Constitution.

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stratocaster_patriot 18 points ago +19 / -1

20 years ago liberals hated government too. Now so many of them are fully willing to accept whatever crazy thing the government forces on them. I'd say government has been the same for 20 years but the people (the liberals) have become incredibly stupid. We can fix government but we can't fix stupid.

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K-Harbour 4 points ago +4 / -0

immigrants is code-word for global de-segregation.

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learntocode 1 point ago +1 / -0

Legal immigrants, I have found, are often very patriotic. They chose this place. They paid their fees. They took the tests. They worked to understand our system and attempted to integrate themselves into it. People overstaying their visas and sneaking across the border are users and abusers of every system they find themselves in. They don’t give a shit about anything and they raise children that are crippled sheep, herded by flashing images on screens and whatever the TV tells them is cool and good. Legal American immigrants typically make a concerted effort to be a part of government - because where they come from that would have been impossible or meant persecution. This has been my experience.

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Assault-Covfefe 12 points ago +12 / -0

Same. I've always said that the GOP and Libs are two heads of the same monster that don't exist to better our country, only to better themselves. It really needs to be purged and started anew. It's too corrupt.

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learntocode 1 point ago +1 / -0

The corruption is part of human nature. Our system is an attempt to control those impulses and allow collective action with a minimum of human suffering, etc. We have purges - elections. Our system requires citizens (not consumers), and a free and unrestricted press and the ability for political organization. Violence to choose the next board of directors at a company would mean chaos, and in government it would mean death and ruin to people up and down the income and social ladder.