Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
Liberals in academia, government and tax-funded non-profit social agencies want everyone to live in rent-controlled apartments in densely populated cities, riding the train together and paying high taxes to support public expenses. \u00a0That\u2019s what\u2019s best for society so everyone should not only live that way, they should WANT to live that way: they should be Happy to Pay for a Better Minnesota.<\/p>\n
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So why do commercials stress the opposite?\u00a0 Nobody advertises a new car by showing it stuck in traffic, it\u2019s always sailing along an empty winding mountain road \u2013 zoom, zoom!\u00a0 Travel companies stress the miles of open white beaches.\u00a0 The slogan isn\u2019t \u201cGet Trampled In The Crowd\u201d but instead is \u201cGet Away From It All.\u201d\u00a0 Just you and possibly a loved one or two, enjoying the mountain streams, blue skies and wide open spaces by yourselves<\/p>\n
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I speculate that ad agencies who make a living selling products instead of extorting taxes understand that people do not want to live in hives, they want a little elbow room and are willing to pay for it, so that\u2019s what they show in the ads.<\/p>\n
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Which is more likely to be wrong: millions of people deciding for themselves, or a few \u201cexperts\u201d telling the rest of us how to live?<\/p>\n
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Now think about Hilary as President.<\/p>\n
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Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To a conservative, that’s a trick question.<\/p>\n
To a liberal? \u00a0A grad school seminar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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