Should conservitards receive the benefits they've been railing against so vehemently?

Depends on the social imperatives. Egalitarian society: (COMMIES!!) 90 percent (as it is in many European nations). Capitalist cowboys (what Republicans think we are, or should be): zero percent. Social democracy with a capitalist vibe: probably fifty percent. 

And of course, there's the question of whether the government should derive its revenue from taxing incomes at all, or by some other method, such as capturing and selling immigrants into slavery, which is Tom's approved method.

He wants to euthanize the sick and disabled too. He has said as much on this forum for many years. 

    All tax rates could be lowered if all DemocRats were deported - within 2 years the national debt would disappear, crime would plummet, and sanity would reign.

Tom's race hatred blinds him to the simple fact, validated by the CBO among other sources, that the net tax revenue from ILLEGULS is $21 billion per year. If his plan of hunting down and killing them all was put into play, the federal deficit would increase significantly.

Stupid Tom.

Where would revenue come from? All Republicans are tax cheats and dodgers.

The grownups are talking, David 

😆  David doesn't know the most basic demographics.

Fact: Blue States are the makers and Red States are the takers.

Kick all you red state moochers off the public dole and it is problem solved.

That was the point of my original post. I wouldn't even mind my blue state money going to fix red state social, moral, and intellectual problems if they would at least acknowledge where the money is coming from. Instead, you have red state politicians bragging about highway repair money or Medicaid benefits coming into their state that they voted against 

"Rein" in.

Why is government spending inherently undesirable?

Shouldn't we do cost-benefit analysis, reaching agreement on subjective considerations such as quality of life?

Let's get away from that idiot ALL GUMMINT ASPENDIN AM BAD trap 

David talking out his ass, yet again.    Jeez!

I'm largely fine with the progressive tax brackets we have now.    But the tax-bracket system doesnt apply to the overwhelming majority of income earned by wealthy people.     And thats the problem.   In the 1980's our country started embracing the idea that investors get preffered tax rates over workers....and we've doubled down on that with several tax changes since.    

Paychecks get subjected to the brackets.   Dividends, captial gains, interest, partnership distributions etc...do not.     As a result you have some trust fund brat who has never worked a day in his life (think Don Jr) who pays fewer cents on the dollar in Federal taxes than someone who gets up to an alarm clock and goes into an office (like me).    Personally I find that infuriating.

Why not just subject all income regardless of where it comes from to the brackets?  I like that idea.