>Let me ask you a question. How much of what you earn do you think you should keep? All of it?
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>Obviously, we have to pay taxes to make sure that the roads are paved, the streets are lit, school teachers, firemen and policemen can get paid. I contribute my fair share to charities that care for the less fortunate. I do not think that the government has the right to take 50% of what I make to care for deadbeats. When I am in the grocery store, I see people paying for T-bone steaks with food stamps and then wheeling their groceries out their their new BMW's. Personally, I have a big problem with this.

How about red caviar? It happens too, in some ethnic areas. As you see, I live in an urban area heavily supported by government programs. Some kinds of abuse are so widespread that no one considers it an abuse.