PA budget

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Let's use the family analogy that repubicans are so fond of these days. Your family has four members in it. Do you each pay the same amount for your food, clothing, utilities, etc.? No. You pay much more than your children do. Why? because you make much more than they do. Are you being punished for your hard work?

I chose to have children, they are my responsibility. And, I am teaching them to grow up and be self sufficient. The money that I earn in order to support my family is not being coerced from me when I support my own children (as it is when the government takes over the redistribution of MY earnings). This isn't an anlogy, this is a reality. I live this.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Flint

redistribution of MY earnings

It's not "redistribution of my earnings". It's investing in our national community. For example: nobody wants to be driving behind a care in disrepair and run over something that falls off it, or have another care in disrepair collide with you because it's brakes don't work. So we have standards for cars, and a department of transportation or motor vehicles to manage that. And we don't want to wait in long lines when we get our cars inspected.

When you reduce government/taxes, something gives, whether it be your children's education, police or firefighter coverage, or the safety of the car in front of you or behind you.

How do you make a second-rate nation out of a first-rate nation? Reduce government spending. Name a country that has gone through an austerity program and come out better for it.