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To elaborate a bit - it just really struck me as bizarre that he's basically giving his insurer a pass for raising his prices, because it's "business", and busi
by kgrin 16y ago
To elaborate a bit - it just really struck me as bizarre that he's basically giving his insurer a pass for raising his prices, because it's "business", and business can do no wrong - as a fellow businessman, he understands the plight of the insurance company. But all the money that's collected in taxes, in his mind, goes into the black hole of Washington & Trenton - including not just the somewhat-opaque things like income tax (which indirectly funds his and Sally's roads, schools, police force and wars abroad) but things like disability & unemployment insurance, which it seems like Sally might need if he has a bad day.
- jbooth 16y agoWelcome to the mind of the Republican. This guy probably spent 8 years defending the Bush deficits and discovered he was a fiscal hawk on January 29, 2009. Until 2016, that is, or earlier if he's lucky.
- jambo 16y agoTo those upvoting this speculation about the author's frame of mind, why does this add to the conversation? To my mind, it distracts from the argument by focusing on the arguer. Is this TPM?
- jbooth 16y agoI was addressing the person I responded to, who was astounded by the gigantic blind spot in the author's reasoning. I explained why.
- chc 16y agoUnderstanding the motivation behind irrational thinking usually requires some degree of focus on the one doing the thinking. And just for the record, I've been a registered Republican since I turned 18, and I've also noticed this sudden surge of fiscal hawkishness in the party. This isn't liberal bas talking. This also isn't to say the guy is necessarily being disingenuous. Just that somebody in his chain of trust is playing politics and that's causing him to form opinions that aren't entirely rational.
- davidw 16y ago> Welcome to the mind of the Republican. patio11 has said in the past that he's a Republican. And even though I think I'd disagree with him about various topics in politics and economics, I think he's got a pretty good mind. And I would vastly prefer a site where I can talk with people like him about tech and startups, rather than the Nth echo chamber site about politics where you get a self-reinforcing feedback loop that tends to marginalize those who disagree with the majority opinion.
- jbooth 16y agoI was just summarizing the reason for the original author's blind spots -- partisan bias. patio11 and/or any other republican on the internet can speak for himself.
- jdminhbg 16y agoHe doesn't get to choose whether to dump money into the black hole of Washington & Trenton.