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This doesn't make sense. I pay a quarter (or more) of my total income so that government can take care of these individuals. Food, basic nutrition, basic safety, etc.

This should be a solved problem.



Most government spending benefits the middle class, not the poor. Roads for your car, schools for your kids, basic research for your devices, police to keep poor people from stealing your stuff, subsidies to keep your company profitable: the typical taxpayer gets a lot of benefit from taxes.


I get what you are saying. But really, not all of your income tax goes to take care of the poor. Sure the government wastes a lot of it on bullshit but there is no reasonable scenario where 100% of your income tax could go to help the poor.




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