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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it that so many Americans, especially on the right wing but also center and center-left, are so viscerally against the idea of someone receiving something basic that they didn't "earn"? Of all the terrible things in society, why is this the thing that generates so much outrage?

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[b]But rhetorically, Americans seem so viscerally offended by the idea of someone receiving something they didn't work for... and this is almost always about low income people receiving something,[/b] and not about corporations that lie, cheat, and steal every day[/quote]

The very ethos of our founding republic was a singular argument against taxation without representation and sending untold sums of cash a ruling elite that didn't earn it. Americans don't like one subset of the population - whether that's the low-income, parents getting paid leave, people only with kids, the disabled, tribal groups, URMs - getting something that no one else is getting.[/quote]

The irony. This country was founded on the basis of “equality” by a ruling, slaveholding, male elite. [/quote]

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