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No. 74723
ID: 30d44f
>I have never read an article.....
>....where I disagree with every statement, until now. This reeks of the worst type of fear mongering and class warfare thinking epitomized by the right wing conspiracy theory websites this publication claims to despise.
>Your "modest proposal" of corporations by and for the American worker would lead us to the type of corporate stagnation we have seen in western Europe and Japan for the past few decades.
>This is the kind of screed written by stoned college students with too many piercings. Somebody got paid for this un-researched, mediocre rampling of an essay? Inequality is a real problem in this country, but this moron trivializes it with his nonsense.
>I would submit that the wealthy are simply sick and tired of paying 50% or more of their income (when you include federal, state, local and property taxes) to support our bloated public institutions.
The money flows and flows with seemingly no accountability. I have to support schools that teach things I don't agree with. I have to help pay for a military that fights wars I don't agree with. I have to support a welfare structure that I believe encourages dependency and causes more misery than it alleviates. I'm suspicious of Keynesian-type stimulus spending; I think the results have been anemic and not what we were promised, and that stimulus money found its way into undeserving pockets.
Rejecting the current welfare state is not about wanting to discard the poor - it's about disgust that these outmoded ideas for "helping" them really seem to do more harm than good for society as a whole, and cost way too much. I pay my taxes, but I want to see them reduced, because I believe the government could do more with less, and because I believe in a true safety net, not welfare as a way of life. I think most people who have achieved a little something feel the same way.
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