Made the mistake of bringing up politics with my buddy who is fairly liberal but more of a centrist I guess, at least that’s kinda what I always thought.
Anyhow I brought up the republican tax plan and some of the reasons I take issue with it, the state tax deduction and less federally dependent states subsidizing states like Kansas for one. I also brought up the student loan thing as well as the estate tax. He basically argued the estate tax doesn’t matter because it’s easy to hide it from taxes essentially and also argued that the studies of rich states subsidizing poor states was somehow false and used poor methodology, but wouldn’t elaborate. And then said poorer states contributing less to federal programs like social security shouldn’t matter.
I’m kinda at a loss lol, but I’ve kinda thought he might be a secret republican or something

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