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Why is it ok to use tax dollars for personal things like food stamps, housing and so on? Thats up to you not the government.
Other then a moral belief that you might have, you should not be able to use any tax dollar on any individual needs. Is it that much to ask for people to take care of themselves.
Feed the people. Feed the children. Feed the babies. Put a little love in your heart.
You're on Medicaid (welfare). Remember my post about how only 49% who receive taxable sources of income are paying any federal income tax AT ALL? Those 49% pay for Medicaid.
By now, you should be getting the gist that the takers now outnumber the contributors in the U.S. The downward spiral will therefore continue to accelerate. The takers have the majority now. They can vote themselves whatever they want, at others' expense.
We passed the 50% mark a year or two ago.
I think the percentage is 52% of those that pay no Federal Income Tax and that includes refunds/credits.
Where do we send the cancer patients to die when they can't afford either treatments or housing? How about people with brain damage from a car accident? I guess they can be evicted out onto the sidewalk for all you care, tworent.
Soylent Green ?
That statement was just in jest. We can't let those that cannot work for themselves out on to the streets but our Welfare system does need reform. Knowone can deny that. There are plenty of people that can work that don't either because they are 2nd or 3rd gen Welfare families that don't know anything else other than their Gov't handout and how too keep it going or they are just too lazy to work. Those are the ones that need to have their Welfare stopped.
Why do you feel people must "contribute" ? Not everyone has to contribute.
So someone goes offgrid. They may not be contributing but they are not "taking".
Is paying your taxes so that EBT cards can be loaded up each month your idea of "contributing" ?
Being off the grid you are self sufficient but you still don't contribute. I'm just pointing out how stupid it sounds for an off-the-grid person to call someone else a leech when they need to look in the mirror.
Feed the people. Feed the children. Feed the babies. Put a little love in your heart.
Feed yourself and feed your own children. It is not nor should be the responsibility of other taxpayers to do so. It has nothing do with love but everyone being responsible for themselves.
I am willing to try cutting ALL welfare so long as it stops industrial subsides, inflated and unnecessary military spending and any and all financial bailouts. No welfare for the indigent also means no help for the financial gamblers.
My preferred system would be a comfortable level of welfare for the indigent and no payment at all to the speculators and fraudulent financiers.
Won't happen. We've passed the event horizon (the point of no return). The takers outnumber the contributors. See my post on how only 49% of those with taxable sources of income pay any federal income tax at all. The downward spiral will therefore continue to accelerate. The takers have the majority now; they can vote themselves whatever they want, at others' expense.
Exactly! And you right the takers are near the majority now so they can keep outvoting the contributors to continue to keep taking.
Being off the grid you are self sufficient... I'm just pointing out how stupid it sounds for an off-the-grid person to call someone else a leech when they need to look in the mirror.
I am willing to try cutting ALL welfare so long as it stops industrial subsides, inflated and unnecessary military spending and any and all financial bailouts. No welfare for the indigent also means no help for the financial gamblers.
If you're willing to pay the higher unsubsidized prices of goods and services, go for it!
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