Posted by manualblock [ 69.112.43.172 ] on March 03, 2006 at 13:48:14:

There might be some mis-conceptions regarding social safety net programs and "Socialism". During the great depression when many people in America died of hunger/lost their houses/could not pay for medical care for their little children, Roosevelt saw that something to help these people needed to be done. So he proposed several safety net programs to prevent these terrible things from happening to Americans.
The old were protected from poverty in their old age by a fair system by which the young paid into a fund through their jobs that would eventually be disbursed to them when they got old/sick or died and left small children with nothing. Social Security.
And for the old whose pensions and savings were eaten up by inflation or who had problems in their lives and could not save enough money to support them when they got old there was Medicare. A fair system that saved many lives through the years.
These systems work well; but the rich perverted them by insisting on "Subsidies". Everytime a business man writes off the cost of doing business he is using a "Subsidy" paid for by the taxpayer. When he claims his car as a business expense that is a "Subsidy" another word for that is "Entitlement". This comes out of the tax dollars paid for by all Americans. A worker cannot use that "Subsidy" for his car; but the worker gets Social Security as a backup if something should ever happen to him. Thats his "Subsidy." Everyone in America uses these "Subsidies". Business men; students; landowners; home owners. We all use these entitlements. If those are something you don't agree with; you should give them back.
But if the worker has to give up his "Subsidy" then the Business owner should have to give up his "Subsidies" also. No more tax write offs for anyone. No more social security or tax defferred savings accounts. No more entitlements. No investment tax credit. No Mortgage tax deduction; no medical catastrophe tax deduction. Everyone pays; and if you can't because you are sick or disabled; debtors prison for you my friend. No more Golf Outings Paid for by the tax payer. No more Farm Subsidies for not growing wheat. Or raising cattle.
It's a tough world out there when you have to go it alone. No more amortized business costs written off your tax return for that building. All these qualify as entitlements.

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