While I might quibble with the way you put number 1, I would agree with assessment.
The original OP though was about a poor conservative complaining about the idea of tax rates going up. Why would people like him care? Because they think it will affect their employment, salary, and standard of living even if the brunt of the tax increases aren't directed squarely at them.
Granted poor conservatives that focus on the list you just provided outnumber poor FiCons, but that doesn't mean that there aren't a ton of poor FiCons out there(especially among younger folks). And its reasonably safe to assume that the people the OP is referring to that decry tax increases are more likely to be in the group I just mentioned not the one that you provided at the top.
But again we are also speaking in generalities here. There isn't a really a fine line between poor cultural conservatives and poor FiCons since there is large amounts of overlap.
But they do pay taxes. Here in New Jersey when they doubled the budget from $16 billion to $33 billion they increased taxes on poor conservatives.
Why?
Mostly to pay for massive increases in Medicaid and massive increases in the hiring of unproductive teachers and state workers. Neither of which benefits the common man.
Seriously?
The teachers are not particularly serious, no. Else their productivity wouldn't keep plummeting despite new technologies.
I would suspect that new technologies often
make their productivity worse because instead of teaching, meeting with parents, and planning lessons, they’re dragged off to some conference somewhere so kindergarten teachers know how to use a SmartBoard while the students are left with an often poorly qualified substitute, who we are also paying by the way.
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There are a lot of problems with the way teachers are paid and a lot of unnecessary beaurocracy about it too, but simply calling them unproductive is, well, unproductive.
