• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They’re not my children, why should I as a taxpayer have to pay for them?

      Because they are your fellow citizens.

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      1 year ago

      You already know the answer to that but you asked the question anyway because it serves as self-entitled neoliberal/libertarian propaganda.

      And of course if there was an actual city out there modelled after your libertarian paradise, there’s not a chance you’d move there, let alone be happier there.

      But boy would I love to see it.

      Because no matter how much of your personality you devote to being a miser, your actual, actual wealth is a piss puddle next to an ocean.

      You’d be a functional slave with every dollar you earned being immediately extracted from you as you’re charged by the foot for the roads you use, living off post-FDA Starbucks that you don’t know has baby-killing levels of formaldehyde in it (again) because the one media company left was paid to not report it.

      But hey, at least you wouldn’t be paying 1c a year for someone else’s birth control.