{"id":3643,"date":"2013-10-17T15:06:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T22:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/17\/no-taxes-debt-or-bullies\/"},"modified":"2013-11-08T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T14:05:12","slug":"no-taxes-debt-or-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/no-taxes-debt-or-bullies\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;no&#8221; taxes, debt, or bullies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In law school you learn that the English language can be used to construct a persuasive case for ANY position whatsoever.\u00a0 Leaving aside the philosophical question this raises about the existence of objective truth, it at least leads one to a healthy skepticism about political statements.\u00a0 The fact is, most aren&#8217;t worth the paper &#8211; or pixels &#8211; they&#8217;re printed on.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But when purveyors of political statements.\u00a0 .\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> get mad and insult the people they disagree with<\/li>\n<li>are narcissistic bullies<\/li>\n<li>overwhelm the public spaces with ad nauseum arguments<\/li>\n<li>appeal to people who have a vested interest for support<\/li>\n<li>use highly speculative projections about the likely outcomes of the position they support<\/li>\n<li>ignore alternative, often cheaper, solutions for achieving the same ends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.\u00a0 .\u00a0 .my skeptical &#8220;spidey&#8221; sense wakes up.<\/p>\n<p>The tax and debt arguments raised in the C-1 (3B), Elbert County (1B), and Elbert County (1C) measures, have all triggered multiple hits in my matrix above.\u00a0 <strong><font color=\"red\">&#8220;NO&#8221; to them all.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And, with apologies to Ms. Hinds and Ms. Spenceley, their reliance on an empowered narcissistic bully to carry water for their C-1 director campaigns totally put me off their candidacies.\u00a0 Bullies should never be rewarded especially in a K-12 context.\u00a0 It just sets a terrible example for the kids.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"red\">&#8220;YES&#8221; to Richardson, Heckman and Willams.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In law school you learn that the English language can be used to construct a persuasive case for ANY position whatsoever.\u00a0 Leaving aside the philosophical question this raises about the existence of objective truth, it at least leads one to a healthy skepticism about political statements.\u00a0 The fact is, most aren&#8217;t worth the paper &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}