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Originally Posted by Americano
I'd rather continue paying them enough for Alpo than have them trying to eat my shrubbery and crapping on my grounds. I look at it as inexpensive retention of social order, far less expensive than fielding my own protection.
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Yes, this is the ultimate justification for Social Security and Welfare policies. Self-serving self-interest of the upper middle class and the rich. Taxes are a small price to pay when the alternative is a mob of several thousand beggers storming your house.
Yes, I'm serious. No, this isn't sarcasm or satire. I've made this argument a dozen times previously.