@VA .. re: "I also find it an offensive concept that one is OK with policies designed to target certain groups, so long as that group is a politically acceptable one to target."
That particular group you're referencing has been "targeted" by the GOP since Reagan with tax cuts to increase the wealth disparity, giving those targeted far more benefits than those not targeted. Those taxes cuts at one time would have been used to create "living wage" jobs benefiting far more people than your possible spending of $50,000 could. But instead all that they have been used for over the past 40 years was to increase the portfolios of those who received the tax cuts to begin with. Buying stocks that raise money through the removal of jobs in America and sending them overseas, increasing their personal wealth at the expense of their fellow countrymen's wellbeing. That group has been "targeted" with the intention to garner votes for the GOP at the detriment to the rest of the country, so please refrain from the pity party because the GOP has found it politically acceptable to target you.
