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Why should my taxes pay for those who cannot pull themselves up by their bootstraps? It doesn't align with being economically conservative at all.
by spoils19 4y ago
Why should my taxes pay for those who cannot pull themselves up by their bootstraps? It doesn't align with being economically conservative at all.
- slt2021 4y agothey dont. Libraries are financed at county/town level, and if you live in a rich city (like menlo park) you will not see peasants from poor cities coming to your town's library. Local taxation and financing is exactly economically conservative view when rich towns get gorgeous libraries, while poor counties get very bad libraries.
- danaris 4y agoYou know that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was originally coined as an absurd impossibility, right? If you reach down and grab onto your own boots, how are you going to lift yourself off the ground? It's no less absurd in this context. People almost exclusively move up out of their economic bracket by means of luck, not gumption and hard work. If hard work were all it took, then the people working 3 jobs and barely getting enough sleep to live would be millionaires.
- josephcsible 4y ago> You know that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was originally coined as an absurd impossibility, right? Sure, it was coined that way. But remember that Schrödinger's cat was coined as an absurd impossibility too, to delegitimize the Copenhagen interpretation, which is nevertheless widely accepted today.
- vlod 4y agoA lot of people don't have kids but yet think it's a good idea to fund public schools for the general good. I have libertarian leanings like the next HN'r, but come on, you're talking about stopping kids wanting to read books.