One problem with this country now is that society has become annoyingly selfish. No one thinks what is good for the country, everyone thinks what is good for me and mine.
We all want Police, Schools, and National Defense to be paid for by “the Government.” But we really mean we want someone else to pay for it — not me, not mine.
I'm not going to pick on your MIL, because I'm not trying to make this personal. So let's use my own Mother instead - she is on SS and her meds are very expensive.
Does my Mother benefit from having Police in her neighborhood? Yes.
Does she benefit from having schools to educate the next generation? Yes.
Does she benefit from our Military protecting our country? Yes.
Should she have to pay taxes to help share the burden of Police, Schools, and Military? In my opinion, YES, my Mother should have to pay something for those services.
Just because she doesn't currently pay for those services, doesn't mean it's RIGHT. Do I want my Mother's net income to go down? Not at all. But I'm not going to vote against something that is good for the country, just to protect my own Mother from RIGHTFULLY having to pay for services that she benefits from.
And if that means my siblings and I have to chip in to pay her share of those taxes, then that's what we do. We do not expect you, or my friends or neighbors to pay MY MOTHER'S share of the cost. My Mother's share is not your responsibility — it is my Mother's responsibility, and since she can't afford it, then it becomes my responsibility (and my siblings).
No one is being heartless here. It's just a difference in philosophy. Just because “that's the way it's always been done” does not mean it is right.
Fantastic post.
then do you have a leg blown off serving, a wife making less than 20 grand and 3 kids who live within their means and now the MIL looses her husband and has nothing but basically peanuts.
Can you move your family cross country and then support them ?
New taxes was supposed what we were against and you cannot tell me what so ever that this 999 plan will not go up to 20, 20 , 20 plan.