Someone tell me this about teabaggers

[jmowreader]

In this wonderful thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023444714

(it's about a teabagger distributing the names of people who both vote and receive disability payments)

we find the oft-quoted, incorrectly-attributed-to-Ben-Franklin quote about democracies surviving until The People learn they can vote themselves money from the public treasury.

Assuming that this is true, and assuming that asking the government for money is a bad thing, howcum teabaggers invariably vote for the candidate who promises the biggest tax cuts?

[Turbineguy]

1. Teabaggers think

that the less money they pay in taxes, the more money the government has to give to the rich. It's the Law of Depply and Sumand.

[arcane1]

2. The short answer: they are credulous idiots who can't think for themselves.

If only cognitive dissonance could be harvested as energy...

[Recursion]

3. Well, taking less money does at least feel different from cutting a check

Particularly when you see your taxes going to the kid buying sodas with EBT and reselling them on the corner, while you don't see how much of your taxes are going to blowing people up in Yemen and Pakistan. It's an optics problem our side has, and we need to work on that.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

4. Tax-protest movement?

Wasn't the Tea "Party" named to show that it was supposedly a tax protest movement? Those who identify with the movement seem to take that idea seriously. They also seem to fail to think very far beyond "I shouldn't have to pay for that!" sort of reasoning. I read a response to a topic at... Daily Kos or someplace, where I'd ended up by following a link here on DU. I think the topic actually was about disability issues, but I don't remember the details. Umm. At any rate, one of the comments basically said, "My husband and I both work, and we are the parents of a disabled child. We haven't sought disability assistance for the child, as a matter of principle. Why should my family be expected to pay for strangers to receive assistance?" I think that comment may basically have summed up the 'Bagger stance in general, and I now wish I'd saved the link.