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Showing Original Post only (View all)The people who complain about their taxes getting stuff for poor people [View all]
Are very often the same people who do not complain when some Multi-Millionaire shovels money into a tax shelter so that they can buy a fifth house
are the same people who do not realize that if it was not for stuff bought with taxes: the roads, the public schools, Medicare, etc, that the economy would be pathetic, and that their cushy job would very likely not be there.
are the same people that would be the first to get killed off if they were ever dropped into the libertarian paradises they praise
and finally,
they are the ones who are the parasites, who want the benefits of being American, something that thousands of people literally die in order to get, but do not want to pay one red cent towards them.
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DonCoquixote
Jun 2016
OP
So, you know them. Can you get me their autographs? Oh, Kerry married into the money.
tonyt53
Jun 2016
#2
Some people have 5 houses..4 of them may be called rental income, hardly millionaires.
Tikki
Jun 2016
#11
John McCain has 8 houses, although when asked during his campaign he was unsure of the total
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2016
#6
But the phrase "free stuff" only comes up when speaking of benefits to low or middle income folks
Fumesucker
Jun 2016
#10
Nothing is free: but the budget priories choices are skewed to the wealthy 1%:
lewebley3
Jun 2016
#14
The young don't vote: that is why it skewed: Sanders doesn't tell them it hardwork
lewebley3
Jun 2016
#62
Right on. These are voters who have to be reckoned with. They are the big part of
ancianita
Jun 2016
#23
It appears I am not the only one deeply pissed off and irritated by "rich 'splainin'"
Dragonfli
Jun 2016
#36
Read Bob altmeyers book on authoritarian personalities. It's free and downloadable
Doctor_J
Jun 2016
#54