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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Anyone who owns a car is subsidized by the form of socialism we have where you get to use public space to leave your car. Do your hardworking people ever think to themselves, wow, it's great to be subsidized that way?
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There are endless cross-subsidizations. That's the point. To say you "care about" someone who is receiving a benefit given by the govt means you are saying you're okay with someone else losing something. Unlike the economy, govt is a zero sum game (at least it's supposed to be). For every thing given to someone, someone else is taxed.
You can't "care" about everyone. You wind up picking and choosing.
The accusation "you don't care about other people" in re: tax policy can never really be accurate. Even if a person just cares about himself and votes for his own interests, he winds up voting for the interests of similarly situated people.
This leads to an argument about which caring is best. Is caring for the worst off the best form of caring? Is caring for the most productive a better form? I don't know. You can make all sorts of arguments for enhancing how much you care for numerous classes.
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