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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
The quote was meant (and I think it was clear)
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I'd say, judging from the reactions of not just myself, the clarity was certainly there but not for the meaning you suggest.
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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
Again, who's punished? I think you are throwing this term around quite loosely. The kid is entitled to my (emphasis added by jammies) tax money? Why, how?
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Again you are retrofitting your argument onto your original rant. If you had said "NO ONE deserves child benefits, including these teen-age mothers, and maybe that would help with the number of pregnancies", that would be one thing. But you didn't. You specifically argued that teens be the ones to lose their benefits, and only teens. Now you're arguing a different proposition with a different justification and trying to pass it off as a mere elaboration on your original argument.
Also, it's not YOUR money once the government has it. It's the government's money. The government shouldn't waste it, but that has nothing to do with where it got the money - if I didn't pay any tax at all, that wouldn't mean I'd be ok with my government spending what money it had on hookers and blow just because I didn't have some mythical stake in its operations.
The government is beholden to the voters, not to the voter's - or anybody else's - money. I don't like paying taxes any more than you do, but if there is a better alternative, it certainly doesn't lie in some free-market dystopia hearkening back to the frontier days of robber barons, shady bankers and philanthropic societies of the smug and patronizing rich.