Ha! I'm poor, but optimistic. In my experience it's the people who are born privileged that believe in the leftist narrative that all your success is due to luck/privilege, and people born in poor families in poor red states just want the government to leave them alone.

But regardless, I don't mind paying taxes if it goes towards quality public goods. I do mind paying taxes that go straight into union members' pockets. It's shameful how much the Dems have sold out taxpayer interests in blue states to feather the beds of their union masters. Blue states budgets are sinking under union pension obligations. Shameful.