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Old 12-16-2009, 07:06 AM   #59 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Derwood View Post
Assuming that this "rich" person lives among other "rich" people (and not among the "poor"), his taxes buy him better roads, better hospitals, more police protection, better hospitals, better schools, etc. You could say that they are "buying" those things with their tax money
...and he pays more for them than the poor person. Also, virtually everything you listed is a state or county service, not a federal one. So, let's try again:

What does the federal government provide to a rich man that it does not provide to a poor man?
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