I deeply care. I’m pissed when my taxes don’t do that. And I don’t mind if some people who don’t necessarily need it slip through.
It may be difficult to love my countryfolk right now, and I’m not the most pro humanity I’ve ever been lately, but right is right and wrong is wrong. Letting people starve when you can feed them is wrong. Also social services reduce social problems like crime far better than aggressive policing.
Also this is literally what “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country” was about. That those with means have a civic duty to pay taxes that go to welfare and social programs rather than bitching and moaning about how their taxes disproportionately help people poorer than them.
I deeply care. I’m pissed when my taxes don’t do that. And I don’t mind if some people who don’t necessarily need it slip through.
It may be difficult to love my countryfolk right now, and I’m not the most pro humanity I’ve ever been lately, but right is right and wrong is wrong. Letting people starve when you can feed them is wrong. Also social services reduce social problems like crime far better than aggressive policing.
Also this is literally what “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country” was about. That those with means have a civic duty to pay taxes that go to welfare and social programs rather than bitching and moaning about how their taxes disproportionately help people poorer than them.
Well said, I feel the exact same way.