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Originally Posted by samuel
Here's just a little bit of my experience in life so far. I'm paying $40,000 a year for college. Before college, I worked 40 hours a week while dealing with high school. (And for those who know about the AP program, I had 7 AP courses in my last two years, and the shit is not easy.) So at the age of 16, 17, and 18, I worked my ass off to help myself prepare for college. Last year, I was 17 and I made a little over $12,000 and over $3,000 was taken out for taxes. The year previous, I made the same amount and only $1,000 was taken out. Between these two years, Maryland switched from Governor Ehrlich to Governor O'Malley (Republican to Democrat). All the while, my good friend drops out of high school, gets pregnant, and receives a welfare check every week. I love her, but I basically worked my ass off and my $3,000 indirectly went to her. She's lazy as hell and did not deserve that.
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But your friend is just only one person receiving a welfare check. I don't see how you could assume that all people on welfare are or are not lazy just because of personal experience of just one person. Also tax money doesn't all go to welfare as your "$3,000 indirectly went to her" suggests. It also goes towards things such as road development and maintenance, salaries for public employees like police, and other things. By saying "indirectly" you are imaging the burden falling on you to support something you don't like but while you do this you indirectly also assume that other people are paying for things that you
do like. For instance, higher taxes under the democrat governor could have been mostly going to some other public goods, not necessarily welfare.