(06-14-2019 11:47 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-14-2019 11:33 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(06-14-2019 10:51 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-14-2019 10:38 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(06-14-2019 10:18 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  Well... you just nearly repeated what I said.

"(probably if I was a more principled person I'd send the entirety of it to charity)."

Not sure why you cut that part out other than to take a shot at me for being deplorable.

Honestly I didn't see that part. I apologize.
To be clear, you're not deplorable by my standards; but you seem at least borderline deplorable by "progressive" standards -- which is a criticism of "progressivism", not of you.

(06-14-2019 10:18 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  Yes. If I was a completely principled person I'd find a way to get that tax windfall to the those that deserve it more. Which wouldn't be sending a check to the IRS, mind you.

But "progressives" insist on the opposite: they insist that letting people like you and me direct our money to causes of their choice is a WORSE use than that taking it for the IRS.

(06-14-2019 10:18 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  In that way, and in many others, I have fallen short of the ideal. (I have, by the way, increased my charitablenbcontributions)

My own charitable contributions are disproportionately large and have been for years -- so much so that my accountant says they put me at some risk of audit. Do I win the virtue stakes?

Yes. You win. Especially since I surrendered the virtue contest prior to your entering it.

And of course I wouldn't have entered the contest if "progressives" had not elevated virtue competition to such a prominent sport. I think it's a stupid contest, and that your choices about your money are no more or less virtuous than mine.

Total agreement there.

I’m better than both of you. I take care of my physically and mentally challenged sister to the tune of $60K a year, plus I drive her to all her appointments, manage her affairs. Because I can afford to do this, at least for now, the left thinks I don’t deserve/need my money and it should be taken from me and used to make somebody more equal. Somebody not me and not my sister.

But I get a $200credit on my taxes for my efforts. Tax break for the rich, I think it is called.