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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Nothing but whining in there. I want my $33K? or at least a Thank you once and a while.

Not Conn. fault KY has a system that can't breed wealth. And not my job to help KY when they and their leaders are so ungrateful. Anytime someone gives me something, I say Thank you.

Themis is a Republican. This may be news to you, Paul, but the democrats have controlled the legislature (which writes budgets) for the overwhelming majority of the last 45 years. Conservatives have never run the show. If there is any conservative footprint in our state's economic landscape, can you point it out for me, please? Because I don't see it.

The democrats promise the unions a blank check, in return for unions providing volunteers and campaign contributions at election time. Is 'whores' that far off? Not to me.

"I want my $33K?" Then advocate for a flat tax. Which puts you in the far right-wing extreme of the GOP.

"And not my job to help KY"

Again, take that up with Blumenthal and Murphy.

It's a separate issue. We give the state a ton of money. More than enough to reasonably run a small state. They chose to overspend by jillions of dollars. That practice will eventually come back to haunt you. Within ten years, we start bouncing pension checks. We've all known that was coming for 40 years. None of us as the right to be surprised by that. When you plant potatoes, you get potatoes. When you take an insane amount of taxes from your citizenry and somehow manage to spend $100 billion more, you will find yourself unable to fund spending at some point. If we don't like that reality, we could have chosen to change our ways at any point in the last 40 years. We chose to double down on liberalism. Oh, well.

Everything I have for retirement is in Roth-type accounts, so the state can't touch it when they decide to massively jack up tax rates in a few years. It won't effect me much. Any idiot could see this coming.