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Freeloaders play pretend

What happened to the fiscal conservatives? Politicians and their political parties are throwing our tax dollars away. Most of the people calling themselves conservatives have some weird fiscal ideas. Here are a few examples:

Let’s start with the right to work. Freeloaders pretend they don’t like unions, but, apparently, they love the union’s contracts. They demand by law that everything in the contract be given to them for free, at the expense of their fellow workers. Right to free-load: very conservative.

I have never heard of anyone having a heart attack who said, “Wait, I opted out, don’t take me to the hospital.”

People are really just opting out of paying their share. Somehow, that’s conservative thinking.

We independents are tired of politicians wasting our tax dollars.

We spend millions sending them to work, but they can’t find the time to do that. Instead, they vote to overturn Obamacare more than 60 times knowing that, if they passed that bill, he would veto it.

Those votes cost us around $50 million. They say that sent a message. I got it: Your political games are more important to you than taxpayer’s money. And they call themselves “conservative.”

Larry Hall

Spokane Valley

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