The elites are just that: people who believe they know better and are smarter than you.

but Marianne, if we solve simple problems with ground level solutions, we'll no longer be able to wring our hands and whinge about how we have no money to pay for roads and bridges AND also taking care of the poor! it's a perfect, self-sustaining system of infinite stagnation

Exactly! The simplest answer is usually the best. 🙂

trickle down is a big lie, just like election fraud.

The Federal Government should stick to running our military and foreign relations and that's about it.