The Elizabeth Warren notion of who paid for what is no different than the public union employees who cry “but we pay taxes too?”
Really? If we stopped paying taxes, how would you pay yours? How would you pay for anything? (Hint: You’d have to work in the real world.)
Public employees can only pay their taxes after we pay them with ours. It is like an allowance and subject to the same rules. If we no longer feel we need or can afford to provide for it, we can choose to stop.
So nothing exists in government (including public sector paychecks, roads, bridges, or US Senatorial lifestyles for those wishing to aspire to them) unless someone else first earns something or creates something that they are willing to exchange for something done by government.
Warrenism and left wing class warfare, however, turns the relationship upside down.
Warrenism states that those receiving the allowance will not only define how much and how often they are paid (under threat of intimidation, public humiliation, lawsuits, and even imprisonment), they will also decide how it is to be spent and who and what will benefit. The problem with this scenario is that, as has often been said, you eventually run out of other peoples money So Warrenism is actually just another form of economic suicide that ends the way every other socialist hissy-fit has ended; in misery or violence, or more likely plenty of both.
No matter what happens Elizabeth Warren and the left wing elites will be fine. That should tell you something about who they are and what they really care about. Power.
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