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Ah. I misunderstood. (If I'd been reading carefully, I'd have realized that in the sentence you were responding to, "them" means parents in one place and kids in another, and you could have meant either one.)
Based on a misreading. (I guess one could argue that it's the result of a knee-jerk response to what you're saying. If so -- sorry.)
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If your point is that the people being taxed heavily are not the super-rich who are the most obvious examples of money not necessarily implying productivity ....
Yes, that's a good point.
I get a little tired of hearing complaints about high taxes coming from people who IMO could perfectly well afford to pay them. Maybe this also makes me overreact ....
About whether this is politics ....
Your ire seems to be focused on one party one part of the political spectrum. This makes you sound partisan despite the repeated disclaimers that you're not talking politics.
And .... What do you mean by "talking politics" anyway? pure partisan rivalry that doesn't have anything to do with principles? I'll believe you're not doing *that*, exactly, but then I would claim that that's not what most people mean by "talking politics."
If you saw the typical parents of preemies and other seriously-ill babies and toddlers at the world-clbutt (no irony here, it's a fact) pediatric hospital here, you would rapidly come to the...
I think that's all I have to say here. The floor is yours ....
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