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I don't understand why you think the government should double dip into other peoples hard earned money. If I work hard it's for my kids and family, period.


i'm glad there's at least a handful of comments like this. I'm watching my 8 year old through the window while on a conference call discussing raising KPIs for myself and my team yet again.

If I'm able to leave some money for my kids and save them from the grind i've spent the best years of my life enduring I don't see how the government has any right to one penny.


You can't "hard earn" billions. Others must do it for you.


True, you can’t dig a trench valuable enough with kW/hr output to generate a billion dollars in value.

You can, however, come up with an idea that improves the lives of 1 billion people by $10 worth. It turns out that ideas are more important to improving the state of humanity than kW/hr output of hard work.

You may be arguing that being one of the billions whose life was improved by $10 is ‘others doing it for you’




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