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Originally Posted by Wagner
The school system is paid EQUALLY no matter how much you make.
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No. Wealthy families pay more in school taxes than do poor families, but their kids attend the same schools. That can easily be seen as "spreading the wealth". Why should the poor kids attend schools when their parents did not pay their fair share of school taxes? (before you jump down my throat, the question is obviously a sarcastic one just to point out that even you are in favor of some forms of "wealth redistribution" depending on how it is done)
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Originally Posted by Wagner
All we have in MD for the most part is volunteer fire departments, so that may be true in some places but it is not the only method.
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Were the construction workers who built the fire house also volunteer? Were the fire trucks donated? What about the electricity for that building? Is the power company providing that free of charge? Does the fire house have a phone? Phone bill? I'm sure there is still a budget for the fire department that is taken from your taxes. Employee wages are just one of many expenses that a fire department has.
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Originally Posted by Wagner
If wealth redistribution, as proposed by the goof running for office, was to create fire department, schools, libraries and infrastructure I might be able to get behind that.
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Just curious, but if you believe that those items are "entitlements" for a child, then why do you not believe that food, shelter, and health care are entitlements for a child? I fail to see the obvious difference in importance between the above items and these three items.
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Originally Posted by Wagner
I do find it utterly hilarious that a person who refuses to provide HC for his own employees is such a proponent of looking out for the other guy via socialist practices.  |
You fail to understand the difference between "refuses" and "would like to but can't afford it".