Mr Khan said:
Kantor said:
Mr Khan said:
homer said:
I would die before I payed 75 % of my income on taxes. I wish all the liberals in the US would go there and enjoy socialism and leave honest working people who believe that poor people who refuse to work or are lazy should be left to fend for themselves and eat amongst the dogs not be robbed to pay for the incompetant. |
Let's do a social experiment, then: go to the slums of Calcutta, have someone shoot you in the spine, then pull yourself up by your bootstraps and conquer that country.
I'll wait.
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How many French people do you suppose live in slums and have paraplegia?
That's entirely besides the point, of course. Just because the ten or so people in France who are actually earning enough to reach that income bracket are losing a significant amount of money doesn't mean that your paralysed slum dweller will see one euro cent of it.
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First, the burden of proof goes on you to state that the hypothetical paraplegic slum-dweller will never see any money.
Second, programs can be reformed. This libertarian conceit that programs are unreformable inherently wasteful giant boondoggles is misguided.
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According to Google, nobody has any idea just what the French government spends, so I'll compare using the British government.
http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/piechart_2012_UK_total
Social exclusion makes up £27.4 billion, which is almost exactly a whopping 4% of public spending.
EDIT: Which means that a maximum of 4% is going towards helping people like him, who fully deserve some help.
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