Thread by @RobertPLewis

Does anyone else find it insulting that blue states pretend not to understand the cycles of poverty they create?

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Poverty cycle:
-want to help the poor
-use taxpayer funds to create programs
-raise taxes because they can’t fund other programs
-create more poverty due to exhorbitantly high taxes
-need more money in programs to help poverty
-raise taxes more (this time regressive taxes -

like gas, sales, home, etc)

The poverty creating environmental activist cycle:
-want to help “the planet”
-enforce stringent building codes
-area becomes too expensive or regulated to build new homes or housing complexes
-price of housing skyrockets-

due to basic supply & demand theory
-*now the 2 poverty cycles work together against taxpayers

And yet the people who call themselves “the smartest people in the room” pretend not to see the monster they’ve created, and don’t teach this in school.

Why?

I firmly believe -

CA is a test case for how to destroy the middle class.

This many taxpayer-breaking policies don’t get put into place on accident.

Nor would they continue to forge ahead if the results were a surprise.