The altruistic art of lifting about half of the money from each of our wallets every year and spending it with prudence, enlightenment and efficiency.
40% of our fellow adults are gleefully satisfied with the benevolent outcomes of this arrangement. You know this because when it’s election
day, they
don’t vote.
“I’m not going to vote, I hate politics.”
“Really? That’s amazing, I thought you loved politics. When I reach over the
table and grab one fry from your plate you throw a complete conniption. But every year when your politicians take, in total, more than half of your hard-earned money, you don’t vote to do a thing about it. So I think you secretly love having a bunch of rich, old white
men take your money and do
whatever they want with it, no matter how demeaning and controlling their laws are to your life and to the lives of the
people you love. That's quite a fetish you've got going on there, I hadn’t realized you were such a political submissive.”