JRscooby wrote:
For the good people that are so opposed to giving "free stuff" to the undeserving. Do you ever compare need? Now some members may think I'm aiming at them. So if you think it might sting do not look at your own taxes, check the value of your deductions!
For example, do you think somebody earning a taxable income over $600,000.00 a year needs help from the government to keep a roof over their head?
Same somebody owes $5,000,000 on their house and is paying 2% interest on their home loan. That interest is $100,000 right? That is $100,000 the home owner does not need to pay the 37% tax on. Using the $600 month rent that was thrown at me, that deduction would rent 5 apartments for a year.
Now I know my numbers my be off, and I'm sure the calculations are simplistic. But I bet if you where to plug in your real numbers you will need to force your eyes closed...
Why do you think it is taxpayers responsibility to go to work everyday, make responsible decisions in their lives, sacrifice, only to have the government take our money and give "free" stuff to those who do not make the effort?
And minimum wage was never meant to raise a family of 4-6. Those jobs are entry level, learn responsibility, and move up the ladder. People do not think, or wait, to have a family before they can afford it.
That is their decision. Everyone else should not suffer or pay for their decisions they made. Why should we be forced to pay for someone else's family when they should have waited until THEY can afford it? People are free to romp in the sack, just stop making everybody else pay for their night of fun, over and over and over again. This is the most absurd thing I have ever heard of. Get on birth control.
Many people would have larger families but they cannot afford it, and do not want to live off of handouts and off the backs of others. That is called be an adult, responsible, integrity, morals, and live within their means.
Being down on your luck, loss of job, disable, temporary help is one thing. And no one denies giving a hand up in those circumstances.
Generations of living on the dole is another. It is a way of life now in this country with no accountability. Take the free stuff while driving your SUV, nails done, talking on your Apple phone.
Half the country working to pay for the welfare and food stamps and free stuff for the other half is a serious problem and so is this mentality.
People choose to drink, do drugs, have 6 kids...they do it to themselves. No one forces them.
We have our own families, rent, food, and bills to pay. So take our food off our table and money out of our wallets for lifelong takers? No. Trying to save our money, for our future, that I guess, we do not "deserve" only to pay for others?
Opposed to giving free stuff to the "undeserving"??? No one said anybody is "undeserving". They deserve to have education, a job, a safe environment to live. They throw those opportunities away with bad choices. Nothing is free.
We all have the same opportunities in this country. It is your personal responsibility to use them to your advantage or not. Do taxpayers "deserve" to have their paychecks taxed against their will? No they do not.
