THIS IS NOT A HUMAN BEING

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http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=325508

Such creatures should not be allowed to pollute communities. They should be driven into the desert like scapegoats. If you can read this without wanting to beat this bozo's head into the ground and then dance a Russian dance on it, you have the toleration of a saint. Personally, I would pay to see him thrown out of the human race.

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Yup. I'd have bet money on his political leanings even before they were mentioned in the story.

Most of that ilk aren't quite so aggressively nasty, especially to children, because they're better at putting a nice public face on, but "Libraries are an indulgence and a waste of taxpayer dollars" and "If I don't have kids, I shouldn't have to pay for schools/libraries/immunizations for low income families/etc." is a pretty common attitude.

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In other words, taxation is only acceptable if it benefits me personally; and in other words I owe nothing to the community in which I was born, in which I grew up, and which protects and legitimates me and all I have. The wisest of the Greeks thought differently.

PS: that does not mean that I regard any kind of use of tax as acceptable. Such things as the National Endowment for the Arts, for instance, strike me as poisonous. But so does the notion that one ought not to think what he can do for the community, but what the community can do for him.