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Originally Posted by joshgirls
sorry, but it has everything to do with nanny state & social programs.
There reaches a point in the tax rate that you spend half your life working for the government instead of for your family. It encroaches on the peoples ability to save & prosper. Acquired savings is a form of freedom, so making it harder for the public to save damages freedom.
If you are going to defend the spending, you will need to justify why spending cannot be cut & why americans should work more & more for these programs instead of for themselves.
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Social programs did not get us into this mess.
You can kill all social programs, that isn't going to get us out of the red.
If your tax rate is so high you spend half your life working for the gov, then it isn't over social programs.
Defend social spending? Okay, not everyone lives in your dream world and saves up or even makes enough to save up or ended up with enough to live on, some people may have to dip into for medical costs or other family costs and magically everyone has the money to pay for health costs that one single bill can bankrupt a family over. Or that a poor child some how can save money for his schooling.... or that an infant of a poor person should realize life is hard and get a job rather than living off the tit of the gov. I'm sure if you get to 70-80+ and for some dumb reason get screwed out of your money, you'll be singing a different story then... just like they ALL do.
Or should we let someone that worked hard, contributed to society, just die in the street, hungry, they have no family, their brain is rotted out from illness and they can't afford anymore drugs... that's fair?