Hobby Lobby ahole threatens to close all stores

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72. The difference is the financial equivalent to semantics.

Your tax dollars pay for my for-profit health insurance - just like they pay for for-profit spying on your phone calls, and for-profit military adventures.

Either it's paid because the government policy is that we hand money to the IRS to redistribute to those companies as a cost of being a private citizen, or we pay directly because the government policy is that we have to do these things as a cost of being a corporate citizen.

In each of these cases, the government is saying these things need to be funded for the common good and generally the only input we have as to whether it's really good or not is through the voting process. He's free to vote like everyone else.