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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about the child care tax credit? Or the mortgage interest write off that allows people to live in bigger houses to accommodate families? How about free public education? Or subsidized college loans? If you can't afford to send your own kid to college, why should the taxpayers help you?

OP, do you oppose public benefits for the middle and upper classes, or only those that benefit the poor? Serious question. [/quote]

Difference is - these are tax deductions, NOT hand outs by the government.  Big difference.  The people who are taking advantage of these are generally paying taxes.  The people who are taking advantage of the hand outs aren't. [/quote]

Go back and read 7:12.  Are they not paying taxes, too?[/quote]Yes, there are lots of people who get some kind of government funds who are paying taxes.  For example, public housing residents often have jobs and pay a rent pro-rated to what they earn.  Lots of people work at regular low-paid jobs but still have to rely on food stamps and Medicaid because they don't make enough to support their families even though they work full-time.  And of course there are lots of working farmers who get crop subsidies and developers who get what amounts to a subsidy -- such as DC paying for the Nationals baseball stadium.

But it doesn't matter because a tax deduction for you means I, as another taxpayer, have to make it up somehow.  So while you are not paying taxes on your employer-provided healthcare subsidy, I should have a right to know whether you are eating a healthy diet and whether you are drinking yourself into oblivion or smoking like a chimney.   Because you're going to be a huge drag on the health system in your 50s if you don't take care of yourself -- which btw increases health insurance rates for us all.[/quote]

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