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Originally posted by bilmore
Hunger across the world would probably disappear if the rest of us would simply "shoulder our share of the burden" and send our spare food to them until it hurt.
But - your supposition is that someone else's problems are rightfully considered mine - that I have a "share" of the problem myself, and that failing to pay "my share" for someone else's support is an unpaid debt of mine.
I respectfully don't buy that.
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Which is why we need a progressive income tax and the imposition of a governmental bureaucracy, albeit an inefficient one, to stand between you and those in need.
But at least it's cheaper than living in a walled compound and paying armed guards to protect you from the unwashed masses. And it's easier than beating off the beggars in the streets.
