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Originally posted by lurkette
If you have enough money for food, and you have a roof over your head, and you have transportation and health care; if, in essence, you have all of your basic needs met, (why) does it bother you if some of your tax money goes to help meet the needs of others?
Why does it seem to bother people less to give money to people who don't need it (e.g., through tax breaks to the wealthy, corporate welfare) than giving food and resources to people who haven't earned them? The first seems to me to be the greater outrage.
Why do people seem to resent anybody getting something for free?
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To which I respond: Who the hell are you do decide what my needs are, when I have enough money, and how any surplus of my money should be spent? If I want to buy a gold-plated, jewel-encrusted swimming pool and fill it with Stoli, that's my decision because it's my money. It requires no further justification than that.
I could just sit around and do nothing, but I made the choice to work instead. So I unquestionably deserve to reap the rewards of my decision rather than being punished for it. Just like those who choose to leech off of everybody else do not deserve to be rewarded with money stolen from productive people.
BTW, tax breaks don't "give" money to anyone. It only means the government steals less. I've said this before a thousand times and I'll say it again: It's no different than someone mugging you, stealing $100 from your wallet, and giving you 5 bucks back. It's still YOUR money, he just stole 5 bucks less of it.