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Originally Posted by Hootad Binky  Anything you get from the government is a handout: k-12 education, sanitation, police, government agencies, etc; unless you live in a cave. |
I would hardly classify anything one gets from the government as a handout. Taking my tax dollars and using them for my benifit is hardly a handout.
The majority of funding for K-12 education, sanitation, police, and the such comes from local taxes that typically are voted upon - bond issues, property taxes, and the like. Voting (and being active in local politics) means one does have a say in how the funds are generated and how they are spent - hardly a handout.
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Originally Posted by Hootad Binky NAFTA was a creation of the Canadian Conservative and American Republican administrations (not the "Liberals"  ) |
Might have been the creation of the big red machine, but there was a blue man in the top chair when it was passed into law - and he was hardly attempting to block it's passage.