How many hypocrites on this site who speak out against "socialism" get a government (tax dollar) pay check?

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mystine, try as she may, makes no sense...

eelfins sees nothing wrong with 25% of the workforce being sponsored by government (tax funded) money....

check.

regurugged is "opposed to social security in it's entirety" but sees nothing wrong with cashing in a tax payer funded check every month and says it's not hypocritical and gets two thumbs up by the simps,...

check.

robocop thinks that he actually payed into a social security "fund",

though taxpayers at this time pay for welfare/ SS benefit recipients at this time and he tries to pass this government program off as "capitalism",

check.

Thanks for your testimonial Who Else?,

it was very interesting and informative.

Answer 1

Back in 1980s, I worked in a defense plant, and I was appalled at the number of "engineer/warrior" types among my co-workers. They would rail against socialism, without ever stopping to think that EVERY DOLLAR of their paycheck came from the Pentagon budget, that is, from the taxpayers, via the U.S. government. Many suffered from alcoholism, since they were overpaid and underemployed. Another issue was their pro-war attitude: these were frail old men who couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag, but they had photos of jet fighters and bombers on their cubicle walls, and they boasted constantly about how we could defeat the Soviet Union thanks to their efforts on the F-15 or whatever they had worked on. Right. The typical aerospace engineer designs the cables, or a control panel, or some other insignificant portion of the total aircraft, and in fact, is never allowed to see what the others are working on, as the "need to know" requirement dictated. Hundreds of bloated old idiots, beating their chests, sucking tax dollars for working on projects that typically didn't get beyond the testing phase. But socialists? Not on your life!

Answer 2

i might probable do exactly away with the corporate tax cost altogether, all it does is punish elderly human beings and median earnings traders, on an analogous time as passing down all last costs to customers. a 10% sales tax and flat earnings tax may be a large theory however, yet first the government has to cut back a ton of spending. militia, Social secure practices, and each little thing else. colleges, retirement, etc. must be lots greater powerful and greater effective in the event that they have been privatized. quite the government could in basic terms cut back each and everything because of the fact top now they're horribly inefficient at spending our tax money.

Answer 3

Most of the Red States are supported by most of the Blue States through the federal tax system because the Red States, in general, can’t carry their own weight as far as federal expenditures. Does that count as a government pay check?

The Blue State "donor" status and the Red State "welfare" status should be changed. Factoring out Social Security and Medicare, no state should receive more in federal dollars than it contributes. It's a good way to start evaluating and reducing government expenditures and lessening the federal tax burden.

Answer 4

What is socialism? Is it socialism when the government collects taxes and then pays the money back in the form of social security?

If that is socialism, then it would also be socialism for the government to collect taxes to build roads, run the FDA so we have (relatively) safe food and drugs, run the FAA so that airlines have to be (relatively) safe, and run all the other government services that we require, including the military.

Answer 5

A government and and country do not run themselves. It takes people and people need to get paid. It makes no sense to equate working for the government with socialism. Are the troops in Iraq tools of the vast socialist conspiracy? Are the police and the garbage collectors? Is your postman a closet lefty? And your high school is employing a comsymp as a football coach, along with his fellow traveler, the evil librarian (shhhhh!).

But really you are right; this word "socialism" is bandied around by people who have no idea what it means.

Let's not forget that under Bush the government has grown to record sizes. George Bush = socialist stooge?

Answer 6

Probably quite a few. And others take or have taken government benefits without realizing it. For example, gov't guarantees on student loans which reduce the rate of interest students pay, Pell grants, public university tuition which is much lower than private college tuition because it's subsidized by the government, unemployment compensation, gov't guaranteed mortgages, disability benefits, the return of deposits from a failed bank or savings and loan. I can think of a few more, but my point is that at some time in their lives, nearly everyone takes a government benefit or subsidy, and is happy that it exists.

Answer 7

Not me. No likey big um government. Me vote Ron Paul support Libertarian party for heap smaller govt. Demo repubes speak with forked tounge, no trust em!

Answer 8

Taxes do not imply socialism. Socialism is a centralized economic system. We have a free market system with government-supplied infrastructure. They're different.

Where do you think tax money goes? It goes to government workers to pay for infrastructure. That's permitted in a democracy -- it doesn't make it a socialism.

By the way, no taxes at all is called ANARCHY. No police, no military, no roads, no goverment. I suppose that's the true meaning of democracy and everything else is socialism? Humbug.

Answer 9

Not me. The only check I get from the government is for my tax refund, which is actually a loan the government gets from me INTEREST FREE.

Answer 10

How do you know they are hypocrites? Where's your sources? Look, you can't just concede that something is hypocrite or someone is a hypocrite without the facts! You better do some research if you are going to put your toes in the the water!