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We already contribute to society more than most.

I am seriously tired of being seen as nothing more than a bag of blood for society to suck on and then come and insult me by emplying I haven't contributed enough.

Dammit I don't mind paying a fair amount of tax to make society work, but when they also choose to insult me because I haven't contributed enough and then waste what I have contributed.




We contribute more in tax on a raw-numbers level because we've historically benefited more on a raw-numbers level too.

We pay the same health insurance rates as everyone else. If you consider that an insult and a waste, I'm not sure how to constructively discuss this with you.


When you say "we've historically benefitted", what do you mean? Surely you can't be referring to me, because I wasn't around "historically".

> We pay the same health insurance rates as everyone else.

Did you miss everything I said? If it's a flat rate, it's not insurance. It's a mandatory subsidy pool.

And yes, it is an insult and a waste; certain groups are systematically forced to give up the results of their labor for the benefit of other groups. Besides obviously subverting useful market-based societal optimization mechanisms, it's also very similar to certain social institutions we sought to eliminate a while back...




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