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We watched most of the Democratic debates last night, and I was surprised that it was when they began talking taxes that I realized something I hadn’t before:

I can’t vote for a democrat.

My entire rationale could never fit into a blog post and would likely take a series to really clear up, but the epiphany I had last night while watching the debates is one so crudely logical and obvious that I’m amazed It hadn’t dawned on me before.

The Democrat’s tax strategy just doesn’t make a lick of sense.

The ABC debate hosts really did spend some time trying to pin down where Clinton and Obama differed on their tax strategy, but time and time again we were referred to the same point. The same point that is so integral to the entire foundation of leftist politics, and one that I had never questioned before. It was best summarized by Obama when he said something to the extent of “There are people who make millions of dollars on the stock market who pay less of a percentage of their income to taxes than lower-class Americans.”

Listen, what I’m about to say is something that is so viscerally objectionable and I know it. But it’s also something that I hope you’ll take into consideration since nobody’s around to judge you.

It is a Constitutional abomination that rich people are expected to spend a higher percentage of their income to taxes.

Or at the very least, even the same amount as their poorer contemporaries. And here’s why:

This graph is as crude and simple as the idea, but it should show what I’m talking about. The higher a person’s annual income, the fewer benefits a person receives from their taxes.

Meaning then, that the people adding the most money to the tax pool see the least return.

Shouldn’t we reward our biggest spenders?

If the tax system existed somehow on the open market, the “top customers” would be treated like VIPs. They’d get a tax cut. Because paying taxes for them is like giving to charity, rather than ensuring a little extra help on the side.

So why do we treat our tax system’s best customers like thugs? Obama literally said “people who are just good at playing the stock market and make millions.”

Are you fucking even kidding me? The richest people in our economy also make up the richest people of the world’s economy. And these people are the most smart, successful, and respectable civilians in our society.

Like the public stock market is some Old Boys Club with secret rules for admission.

Get the fuck out of here with that nonsense.

Politically speaking, favoring tax cuts for the wealthy seems really immoral.  But it’s really only unfavorable because it seems like rich people have somehow gamed the system and won.

Fallacy maybe, but this is quite the slippery slope.

Should rich people be charged more for their cups of coffee at Starbucks or burgers at McDonald’s?

Should they pay more for gas or more for speeding tickets?

Isn’t “leveling the playing field” economically a vastly slippery slope to Communism?