People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.
People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.
People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.
I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
I love talking about taxes.