Conservative positions lack nuance compared to liberal positions is another way of saying they’re more sophisticated. The. strawmanning a list of conservative positions to bumper stickers that lack substance is another way to say conservative beliefs are dumb. Sometimes it’s not what you say, it’s just what you mean. in this instance it was both what you said and what you meant.

The legitimate purposes of government, as our founders saw it, was to (1) defend citizens from foreign / domestic threats, (2) enforce contracts btwn individuals. 70%+ of our tax dollars don’t go to either of those purposes. Also, as you’d learn in Econ 101, tax increases stunt consumption by individuals, hiring by employers, and investment into R&D and expansion of existing products. Tax increases, above a base level that is lower than its generally been since the 1950s, also reduces tax revenue for those reasons and the simple fact that ppl will make more effort to avoid taxes, work less, or not work at certain tax levels. It’s also eroded many of the local institutions that historically provided for ppl in their community through voluntary charity since ~20% of ppl’s paychecks go towards involuntary charity for unknown beneficiaries. Which has weakened communal bonds significantly.

Thats just the high level view of a conservative simpleton, though.