Reply #3: true. what's amazing is that implausibility doesn't stop the fantasy [View All]

as a kid, i met a (republican) machinist in the university physics department machine shop. he had almost reached retirement, and had a comforable but unexceptional blue-collar retirement to look forward to, the kind you get when you put in a long career at a public institution and max out at about $30,000/year.

this guy was adamantly against high taxes on the rich, and agreed wholeheartedly with increasing his own taxes and decreasing his own benefits to pay for lower taxes for the rich.

why?

........... "because someday i'm gonna be rich!" ............

unbelievable. a blue-collar retiree, missing a couple fingers, and with no ideas or ambitions, and no rich relatives, somehow thinks, not only will he someday be rich, but that it's so likely and so important to save an extra few percent in taxes when he becomes rich, that he's HAPPY to pay more now to humor himself into thinking the dream could become real.