Did anyone shift right as their tax bills increased?

Inventory taxes are some bullshite. I owned a predominately service type business but we started selling a product that blew up. Had to start keeping inventory to keep up with demand and learned I was supposed to pay tax on it. “Supposed to”. Was enough that I could still pretend I was preserving as needed

It's fun being a liberal in college while a scholarship or mom and dad are paying the bills but it's not fun anymore when they cut you off and you have to start paying the bills yourself.

Me?

My parents paid a lot of my expenses in college and even when it wasn't my own money, I was still very, very frugal about what to spend money on, even got to a point where I only ate one meal a day with some snacks sprinkled in the rest of the day. Never used a credit card. Even had a college roommate complain about how cheap I was.

I first learned about taxes when I was told that the government made more money on a gallon of gas than the oil company, gas station owner, and oil field owners.

They risked nothing, made nothing, and did nothing but threaten to jail anyone who didn’t pay up. Kind of like The Godfather on steroids.

I've shifted to the left if anything. Although taxes do suck.

Yup.