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It's not 'free' it's paid for through taxes.
by pmorici 6y ago
It's not 'free' it's paid for through taxes.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoGood point. The rich need to pay taxes, else there is civilization only for the rich. Consider Alabama, a lowtax state, thanks to the 1901 constitution that the landowners and industrialists wrote to protect their wealth and look what shape the state is in.
- dyadic 6y agoIt is free to the person that receives it. Imagine I bake and give you a cake, it's still a "free cake" even though I've put the work into baking it and other people have put the work into harvesting the ingredients and bringing them to me.
- pmorici 6y agoNo it isn't, presumably that person will graduate and go on to have a career where they are paid a salary and pay taxes on that salary. How is paying higher taxes for one's entire working life different than making payments on a loan with lower taxes?