“You want to help me, a tax payer, STOP SPENDING MY MONEY”
I realize it won’t help to tell you this, but the reason the government spends so much of your money is because those people you speak of with no skin in the game, or those type of people, rather, vote your money into their pockets. Nothing has worked so far to convince them to stop. I don’t see many alternatives.
By the way, people without skin in the game actually already have skin in the game, they just don’t know it because they don’t understand inflation.
Tell that to Reagan. It's not the working people like my employees that benefit from high taxes and they know it. It's the Leftist who want the money to give it to people who produce nothing I.E. solar panels, welfare recipients. Employed people tend to vote against giving money to people who do nothing. Obama understands that so well his solution was to unemploy everyone.
But consider this, the reason why Obama won in 2008 is because he co opted the Conservative platform of lowering taxes. He lied, but it worked. The person who is going to win in 2012 is going to be the one who tells the people I am going to get you more money in your pocket. Obama will do it by saying he is going to take it from the rich and give it to you. The Conservative message has to be, "I'm going to take it from the government and let you keep it and I'm going to help you make more". Do you really want to hitch your wagon to the guy who is saying I am going to create a new way to take money from you and give to the government? That message will not win.