Something has to give, I agree. But whoever will suffer from the tyranny of the majority must at least have a voice and be treated according to the law.
It's downright stupid that people can't understand that it costs more every year to do the business of the state, mainly because contractors in every sector demand more because the cost of their labor and materials go up. Taxes then have to go up a small percentage, too, and if idiot Republicans keep that from happening for several years in a row, we end up in a god-awful mess with a refusal to cut taxes and a wild-eyed target on everything they don't like. Republicans absolutely hate education, so that's first... and the only thing that they hate worse than *anything* that has to do with education is any kind of entitlement program - from welfare to unemployment to healthcare.
There's nothing wrong with investigating how to save money, we just have to look in the right places and make sure that it's not our ideology that got us in the mess in the first place.
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