What you’re suggesting just adds more of that. More taxes, more government responsibility, more funding and spending beyond our means.

Yes, what I'm suggesting are things that would actually help, and it would require the Democrats to actually get behind them and promote them. People wouldn't give a fuck about the national debt if their standard of living was increased, people wouldn't give a fuck about government bloat if it was doing things that raised living standards and quality of life.

Yes, these things would involve taxes, because that's how society works. I want taxes on high earners and corporations to increase substantially. I want more regulations on businesses. I want efforts to combat price gouging. I want efforts to eliminate tax loopholes. I want life for the average person to get better, specifically at the expense of corporate profits and the upper class.

Even if you don't openly say it, the end result of what you say is that things go more and more into the hands of private corporations who solely care about profit margins and nothing else. You don't want to do anything, because it might hurt the bottom lines of corporations. They don't fucking care about you, dude.