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Originally Posted by weltschmerz
Oh, hell no! Just because some people want to live in a rarified, gated community, does not mean they should pay fewer taxes.
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Correct, though (a) paying taxes means that those folks still warrant all the services those taxes are ostensibly intended to cover, but (b) only to the extent that their decisions don't result in a substantially higher cost of providing those services per home that is specific to those homes.
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Originally Posted by weltschmerz
You don't care if the world outside your safe little enclaves looks like the Hunger Games or The Purge, I guess. Incredibly selfish.
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There is a strain of entitlement mentality in our society affecting the rich and their wannabes that seems to be getting more and more virulent.
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Originally Posted by NHartphotog
No longer is our tax system about contributing your share for the services you get
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Our tax system hasn't been as you would want it anytime in your lifetime - perhaps never was at all. Your comments in this regard are vacuous exhortation - a failed attempt to get the
argumentum ad antiquitatem fallacy past people. Try some other dodge.
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Originally Posted by NHartphotog
BTW, cops and firefighters, or successful business/technical executives in their prime earning years, now live on my street.
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I'm not sure your reason for saying so... Are you upset that you have to live among people who you would rather live as if they were truly servants?
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