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skeeter: You could be right about preserving the middle-class lifestyle. Macro-economics isn’t really a hard science, after all, and I’m sure that many intelligent people voted the same way you did on I-1098, and for the same reasons.
However, as I see it, the “middle-class lifestyle” you’re talking about is a relatively abstract thing, while parks, libraries, and other public services are more concrete. And we’re losing these things in the here and now, all because we voted down I-1098.
The salad days are over. If we simply refuse to raise taxes on wealthy people, we might eventually find ourselves having to give up lots of amenities we formerly took for granted. And at some point along this continuum, only the wealthy will be able to afford to go to parks, read books, stay healthy, and so on.
There goes your middle-class lifestyle . . .