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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WTJ" data-source="post: 2002957" data-attributes="member: 6661">OK then. Why should I, or any other productive citizen, be obligated to pay for a non-productive individual's food, housing, transportation, and amenities, their offspring (choice), including all of the above PLUS a "education"? Where does it say I am OBLIGATED to support these people and their choices? And, yes, I understand that there are exceptions. Go ahead and hate. Furthermore, the citizen who makes his living in the private sector (no government monetary input) is paying government employees also. If you factor in assistance programs, government jobs, and the ever shrinking true private sector, meaning no income from government contracts, it is likely that 20% of the working population is supporting the other 80%. Obviously, this is a death spiral.Government does not create wealth. It uses it. Government employees recycle tax dollars, but at least they contribute back into the pool. You cannot say that about those on "assistance programs".I heard a report that about 50% of people employed in this country were directly employed by some form of government. There is another group who is indirectly employed by government, then a third group who is provided for by the government. The last group contributes through taxes to pay the first three groups. All in all, a excellent plan for prosperity for someone, while I cough up about 50% of my income to the government. Yay! Me happy.</blockquote>

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