Re: Why \"x% of people have y% of the wealth\" is irrelevant.
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The thing is, the real problem I have with taxes isn't that they're helping the person down the street... it's that they're not helping the person down the street. How are my taxes giving that kid food and school books? They're going to pay some beauocrat to sit in an office to create studies on the ways they waste our money.
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A lot of money goes to waste in the redistribution process, I don't disagree with that, its a price I am willing to pay. But all the waste is also a reason to be selective wrt to what the government is supposed to provide, it has to be something important to justify the waste, if it is something unimportant also the poor are better off with the money working in the private sector instead.
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