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I'm not saying your argument is incredible because you are X, I'm saying that I am fairly certain I have you dead to rights that you believe X, and that X is ba

I'm not saying your argument is incredible because you are X, I'm saying that I am fairly certain I have you dead to rights that you believe X, and that X is bad and you should feel bad. That isn't an ad hominem, that is an opinion. It is an important distinction. Please keep it in mind. Anyway. What "right to entitlement from the rest of the country"? As a generality, states with high state/local taxes net out as significantly greater federal contributors than states with low state/local taxes, significantly, and deductions for state/local taxes have already been recently capped in a way to throw red meat to the resentful base. "We", in this formulation, are already pulling our weight. "We" have also recently increased what weight we are pulling. Should not the states of the party of personal responsibility maaaybe show some good faith on this one and do a little moving on their own?

NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> I'm not saying your argument is incredible because you are X, I'm saying that I am fairly certain I have you dead to rights that you believe X, and that X is bad and you should feel bad. Yes, except the thing you claimed people believed has nothing to do with what anyone claimed. You're baldly asserting that people who disagree with you on tax policy additionally hold this bad belief, and hence are bad people. That's a gussied up ad hominem, and is extremely common in certain political groups. > "We", in this formulation, are already pulling our weight. "We" have also recently increased what weight we are pulling. ...with a tractor paid for by collective money. Your whole position is that California or New York created this wealth on their own, through their own policies, and that's factually incorrect. What you describe as "pulling our weight" is merely hoarding the returns on others' investments into your state -- the exact kind of hoarding wealth frequently decried as disequity by people within those very states.

NotAnEconomist 8y ago

> I'm not saying your argument is incredible because you are X, I'm saying that I am fairly certain I have you dead to rights that you believe X, and that X is bad and you should feel bad. Yes, except the thing you claimed people believed has nothing to do with what anyone claimed. You're baldly asserting that people who disagree with you on tax policy additionally hold this bad belief, and hence are bad people. That's a gussied up ad hominem, and is extremely common in certain political groups. > "We", in this formulation, are already pulling our weight. "We" have also recently increased what weight we are pulling. ...with a tractor paid for by collective money. Your whole position is that California or New York created this wealth on their own, through their own policies, and that's factually incorrect. What you describe as "pulling our weight" is merely hoarding the returns on others' investments into your state -- the exact kind of hoarding wealth frequently decried as disequity by people within those very states.