Less than a month ago, large groups of conservatives protested high taxes. Now, I don’t have any issues with protestors, even if I disagree with their stance. No, what took me off guard was the picture in this article of a child on his parent’s shoulders at a protest.
Source: Morry Gash / Associated Press
This really irritates me. Parents, let your children be kids. There is absolutely no reason a child should be at a protest, unless it’s about a cartoon being cancelled or a sexual predator moving into the neighborhood. There definitely isn’t any reason a child should be protesting over taxes. What do kids pay taxes on? The only thing I can think of is the 5.5% Sales Tax (at least in Wisconsin), which I can’t imagine is affecting our youth that much. If anything, the children should be asking for more taxes so their public school system can receive more funding.
I understand the tendency to press your political ideology on your child, but that will happen naturally while they grow up. I remember in 1992 having an argument with my dad about why Bush is better than Clinton. I was 9 years old and had no idea what I was talking about. I was just disagreeing with him to rile him up. Oddly enough, we didn’t have an in-depth conversation about the economy and foreign affairs.
Finally, that article was written on a Thursday afternoon. So, this kid got out of school to go to a protest. Now, he’ll probably be bad at math and really struggle with algebra in high school. He’ll drop out because the rest of his classmates call him dumb. He’ll turn to recreational drugs to help cope, but will probably end up getting hooked on something harder (or at best become an alcoholic). Well, that’s OK, because at least he was able to have his voice heard about taxes when he was 9 years old.
ha ha!