The CBO will be roundly condemned as irrelevant or biased when it makes a pronouncement that gores someone's sacred cow; just as it is proudly pointed to as the wisdom of God when it justifies someone's preconceptions.

I've given up trying to make sense of it all. People will support what's best for them, and not what's best for everybody. It's all a matter of naked self-interest. I can understand that. It's when someone tells me that what's best for them must be best for me that I move my wallet to the front pocket of my jeans.

So why do I pick sides (other than naked self-interest, of course)? Because there are more of US than there are of THEM;
and because THEY have more resources available to them than WE do.

They call this "class warfare". I call it "taking responsibility for my own welfare"; because they sure as hell don't care about mine, so why should I give a fig about theirs?