Two Dimensional Political Spectrum Quiz

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Originally Posted by theknife

ah, i see the problem - you grasp simple transactions like "giving them money"

There is no "giving them money" as I have stated and you are the one confusing "not taking" with "giving".

Originally Posted by theknife

but the slightly more complex "giving them billions of dollars in publicly-owned resources"

How can the government "give" something it doesn't possess? Maybe it should be charging people for all its air and water that it's "giving" us.

Originally Posted by theknife

or "giving them below-market royalty rates for extraction of taxpayer-owned rersources"

There is no "royalty market". You're ignorance of economics matches your ignorance of ethics. And as a "taxpayer", my ownership of any "resources" is purely your own contrivance. Or perhaps you can tell me how to sell my portion?

Originally Posted by theknife

but if we use your standard, free health care or free food to the poor would not be welfare either. sounds like you've got kind of a closet-liberal thing going

Forcing people to labor for the food and health care of others is slavery and all I've "got going" is simple ethics which you are unable to comprehend.

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Big Oil welfare - big rip off for American taxpayers