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Posted by: Clear-Eyed Realist
Date: 05/28/2008 12:30PM
MBA,
Why do you make the assumption that I am not paying taxes?
What do YOU think that a Ph.D. scientist, running a research lab a biopharma company with yearly bonuses and profit-sharing makes? And pays in taxes?
(more than the average MBA, I'm betting.....)
I am very aware that, if not for the free K-12 public school system, a good state college, and the NIH stipend for my grad degree, I'd probably be working as a subsistance farmer, like my grandparents did 100 years ago.
Of course, the $100-150,000 in "free" education that I received was paid back, in the form of my federal taxes and contributions to the American economy (I supervise a lab of 20+ workers, and have 3 of my own employees) long ago. Investing in education, in those Libertarian-hated "government schools" is a cornerstone of the American ideal.
I don't call the elderly on Social Security "freeloaders," even though SSI takes a big percentage of the GDP. I don't consider the military a bunch of bums "depending on government 'help'" (your words). If a big chunk of my paycheck is going to support the elderly, the infirm, and those who are making sacrifices on my behalf (e.g., the armed forces), so be it.
Call it socialism if you want (I don't consider myself socialist, never have voted for a Socialist candidate, and have seen failed European-type socialism firsthand), but I think it is simply common decency.
Why do you make the assumption that I am not paying taxes?
What do YOU think that a Ph.D. scientist, running a research lab a biopharma company with yearly bonuses and profit-sharing makes? And pays in taxes?
(more than the average MBA, I'm betting.....)
I am very aware that, if not for the free K-12 public school system, a good state college, and the NIH stipend for my grad degree, I'd probably be working as a subsistance farmer, like my grandparents did 100 years ago.
Of course, the $100-150,000 in "free" education that I received was paid back, in the form of my federal taxes and contributions to the American economy (I supervise a lab of 20+ workers, and have 3 of my own employees) long ago. Investing in education, in those Libertarian-hated "government schools" is a cornerstone of the American ideal.
I don't call the elderly on Social Security "freeloaders," even though SSI takes a big percentage of the GDP. I don't consider the military a bunch of bums "depending on government 'help'" (your words). If a big chunk of my paycheck is going to support the elderly, the infirm, and those who are making sacrifices on my behalf (e.g., the armed forces), so be it.
Call it socialism if you want (I don't consider myself socialist, never have voted for a Socialist candidate, and have seen failed European-type socialism firsthand), but I think it is simply common decency.
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