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Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
#71
RE: Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
(December 11, 2016 at 10:35 am)Tiberius Wrote: Then give them aftercare, support, and monitoring...

Wouldn't you have to raise taxes to pay for all that?
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#72
RE: Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
Or use tax revenue more sensibly.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#73
RE: Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
(December 11, 2016 at 10:40 am)Stimbo Wrote: Or use tax revenue more sensibly.

Good point.

Get the rich to pay their fair share too.
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#74
RE: Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
(December 11, 2016 at 10:37 am)Bella Morte Wrote:
(December 11, 2016 at 10:35 am)Tiberius Wrote: Then give them aftercare, support, and monitoring...

Wouldn't you have to raise taxes to pay for all that?

Yes but taxes in the US should get raised. They are ridiculously low.

Plus, that's kinda the point of taxes, to provide service for people. I'd rather support addictions programs and healthcare than our bloated military budget.
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#75
RE: Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
(December 11, 2016 at 2:42 am)Iroscato Wrote: Oh, and heaven forbid poor people buy things that might bring them some enjoyment and pleasure. So what...because they currently lack employment, they shouldn't be allowed to eat steak as and when their meagre budgets can stretch to it?

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???? YES!! Someone with a lack of employment should not be allowed to eat steak and expensive foods from our tax payer dollars. Pleasure, comfort, enjoyment and entertainment are not rights!!!
Make America Great Again! Trump 2020
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#76
RE: Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
(December 11, 2016 at 11:58 am)Loading Please Wait Wrote:
(December 11, 2016 at 2:42 am)Iroscato Wrote: Oh, and heaven forbid poor people buy things that might bring them some enjoyment and pleasure. So what...because they currently lack employment, they shouldn't be allowed to eat steak as and when their meagre budgets can stretch to it?

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???? YES!! Someone with a lack of employment should not be allowed to eat steak and expensive foods from our tax payer dollars. Pleasure, comfort, enjoyment and entertainment are not rights!!!

Maybe you will change your mind when you lose your job.
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#77
RE: Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
"Less fortunate".
Meaning, you apparently don't give a shit about anyone else but yourself, and are a judgmental, black and white thinker.

I recommend strongly that you travel and get to know people. Move around. Learn the stories of others.
If The Flintstones have taught us anything, it's that pelicans can be used to mix cement.

-Homer Simpson
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#78
RE: Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
(December 11, 2016 at 12:04 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:
(December 11, 2016 at 11:58 am)Loading Please Wait Wrote: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???? YES!! Someone with a lack of employment should not be allowed to eat steak and expensive foods from our tax payer dollars. Pleasure, comfort, enjoyment and entertainment are not rights!!!

Maybe you will change your mind when you lose your job.

Meh - he has job security for life. Sailors will ALWAYS need their c*cks sucked... Tongue
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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#79
RE: Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
(December 11, 2016 at 11:58 am)Loading Please Wait Wrote: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???? YES!! Someone with a lack of employment should not be allowed to eat steak and expensive foods from our tax payer dollars.

They're not your dollars. What if your employer was a staunch teetotaller, or aggressive anti-smoker, or a passionate vegan? Does that give them the right to demand that you're not allowed to buy alcohol, tobacco and meat with the money they pay you?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#80
RE: Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
(December 11, 2016 at 11:58 am)Loading Please Wait Wrote: Someone with a lack of employment should not be allowed to eat steak and expensive foods from our tax payer dollars. Pleasure, comfort, enjoyment and entertainment are not rights!!!
They may not be rights, but they are a powerful motivator. At the very least, a person on assistance who is able to manage money wisely should be able to reward himself and his family with the occasional pleasure, comfort, enjoyment, or entertainment. At best, it's a reminder of what they can get more of once they're in better financial shape and sharpens their determination to set and reach those goals.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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