elephants
continuing yesterday's thread... let me borrow a metaphor. about blind guys feeling up an elephant in the dark. they all have different opinions on what it is cause they've grabbed a different part. anywho, most of us spend our entire lives in a relatively small part of the wealth/income distribution. middle class kids grow up to middle class lives and start middle class families. same for rich and poor. so like the blind guys each group has a different opinion about how the tax machine works. and if they compare notes, they can get into really vicious fights. like say the rich guy says we need to raise taxes. the middle class guy and the poor guy lynch him. even if the rich guy says we need to raise taxes for the rich. the middle class guy and the poor guy still both think he's talking about them. why? cause they both busted their humps all their lives and moved to the upper portions of their brackets. ie they're relatively rich. they think of themselves as rich.