I didn't know what my political affiliation was until I started my own business in 1994 and had to write quarterly checks to the IRS. I was outraged every time. When I would think of the amount of hours I had to work, the weekends, the nights, the early mornings, the headaches, the stress, and a lot of that hard work was being confiscated by the government.
Around the same time, my parents moved to Arizona and my dad started telling me all about the illegals coming over the border to have their babies and using up our resources. He loved Joe Arpaio, BTW. I began to realize that government spending was out of control and a lot of that was pure waste and opulence for politicians.
It hit me like a ton of bricks. I didn't (and still don't) mind paying taxes but I'll be damned if I'm going to sit by and watch a bunch of liberal elites confiscate my hard-earned money for their wasteful spending and vote-buying schemes. I'm not excluding republicans here but at some point we did have some conservatives (and still do) who actually believe in smaller government and elimination of government waste.
The end.
