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Originally Posted by Kyle2k
See this is where your logic is absolutely moot, you aren't helping him by taking away funding that helps pay for tuition, transportation, healthcare, etc...you are taking the tools away. He can't get to school, he doesn't learn, he can't get to work, he can't earn money and spend it to boost the economy, he can't get healthcare for a decent price, he'll have to make sacrifices like not going to work or school etc. Do you understand the connection I am trying to make? Because there is one, for instance, I live in ND the government gave people land here to start farming, working etc (and just to live here lol) Everyone needs help or gets help and thats what can help the prosper. I would truly like to see you dumped off in the middle of the street without any money/without memories of your education/transportation/etc and see if you can work back to your current income based on your work ethic. If you do thats great, and I would like you to prove me wrong, but I don't think it would happen.
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Again you missed my point. If we all pay the same amount in taxes and these public benefits cost, in percentage, the same to everyone then I have no argument. The global warming tax isn't paid for by those who use it. It's paid for by those of us who have earned enough money to afford their own car. If they raised the cost of riding the subway and the bus by the same amount then I'd shut my mouth and grin and bear it.
But make no mistake there are very few people in the US that if dropped off in the middle of nowhere with their families and just the clothes on their backs, wouldn't be able to get back on their feet in little or no time. Because we know how to suck it up, put more water in the stew, and get to work. And even if I'm making less then 1% of what I'm making now. I'd still want to pay my fair share in taxes. I'm successful because I worked hard to become so. Not because the government gave me success. There are plenty of high school drop outs that have become quite successful in this country, and many more of them who walked to work.