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Originally Posted by White Rabbit
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.
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I think anyone who recognizes and understands the reality of how society is actually composed understands the responsibility and benefits of providing for the disadvantaged, be it through personal efforts or taxation. That's actually a traditional conservative value most often ignored by the current crop of pseudo-conservatives.