Originally Posted by RichieLion

A great great number of the left are, or were, in government jobs where their income is derived from the labors of the taxpayer.

Their salaries and perks are not dependent on profit, but on the whims or desires of another government bureaucrat who doesn't have to show any value added by that employee to raise his compensation. Maybe that employee just makes his job easier, or it's part of a contract signed with a public union that demands this increase in compensation without any value being added.

Taxes or fees are raised, and the public juggernaut goes forward oblivious to the real world market economics of regular Americans

These people do not live in the world of "make your own way". It explains much of the beliefs they have.