The left-leaning rich frequently complain that they don't pay enough in the way of taxes. To right the alleged wrong they claim they'll vote for politicians who will legislate higher rates of taxation on them. Apparently there's nobility in self-flagellation.
The problem is that low-tax types on the right encourage the left's self-abnegation. Apparently they don't see that their encouragement is more than a bit contradictory. Indeed, when they supposedly call the bluff of witless lefties by telling them to feel free to write a bigger check to the U.S. Treasury, they're unwittingly reminding us that the self-flagellation is very much a bipartisan concept.
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