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Originally Posted by MysticCat
And exactly where does the idea that "half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them" come from?
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People jump on that "47% of the people don't pay federal income tax" and make assumptions. They don't pay attention to the stats that show that most of them are the elderly (who paid their share their whole lives and are now living on fixed incomes), college students (who will, presumably pay their fair share in the future), and those who are too disabled to work (and I don't know what people think we should do about them... let them die???).
I've yet to meet anybody who would rather be sitting home collecting barely enough to live on than working, paying taxes, and making enough to cover their essential expenses.
All those welfare folks with their $120 a month in food stamps are really living high on the hog, don't you know? So what if they can't be used to buy toilet paper or diapers.
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