Why does no one talk about how much the top 1% make off the rest of us taxpayers?

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2. This idea occurred to me years ago when a conservative friend was working for Microsoft.

He did well for himself despite being a single father. He ended up retired by about age 40.

I knew him when he was a kid, his dad was a devout Republican and he took right to it. I knew him when he didn't have a pot to piss in. The government had no small role in his getting his software engineer degree either, plus helping him support the kid.

His attitude toward taxes always amazed me. He just couldn't believe they could take that much money from him! He was only looking at what came out of his check, thinking how much better off he would be if he didn't have to pay that. Never mind all the government contracts Microsoft had. A shitload of that money he was raking in, was our tax dollars! Some of it his as well.

As it stands now, he may need to go back to work. It turns out he wasn't set up as well as he'd hoped.