Where on earth did you get that? Are you just trying to prove his point?

> What political party is going to promise you a girlfriend?

You've unframed and changed my speech so much that it looks stupid. Obviously, you conclude that this is stupid: You're right!

I'm saying: If you don't want me to vote for Trump/FN, then instead of shaming me all the time "because he's from a rich familiy, therefore he doesn't deserve consideration, even if he works hard and donates a lot", try to intervene at the private/social level by having solidarity with people's situation. If you give those people some love, and fix their lives, they'll start voting differently.

OP's dubious math aside, the US tax dollar doesn't really feel like it goes as far as it does in many European countries. Public transportation prices are extremely high nationwide, infrastructure is lacking, healthcare and education expenses will break the bank, and welfare programs don't really cut the mustard. Yes, a majority of Americans don't pay any income taxes; but a ~50% income tax in a country like Sweden feels like a fairer deal than an equivalent tax rate (and it does get this high for upper-middle-class incomes in many states) in the US.

Do people go to a cremation?

I interview plenty and I've moved away from technical questions and puzzles. We have a conversion, and talk about programming. I ask scenario based questions and just see how they think and will solve it.

i.e You have a program, it's running slow, how do you debug it.

You find that the slow part has a query, how do you debug it?

So you check the table, it has indexes, as a matter of fact, it has index on all 10 columns and the insert is slow as hell, what now?

What's your opinion on OOP vs procedural? or OOP vs functional?

Two developers come to you with various idea, idea A and B, which will you pick why? What do you think is the pros and cons of A and B?

This is very revealing.