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Old 01-10-2009, 02:07 PM  
kane
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I think some of it is that taxes are high for just about any industrialized nation and people want something good in exchange for those taxes. I would rather see my taxes go towards giving people health care than to giving companies money that sent jobs oversees. For example there was a company that took all 3,000 of its manufacturing jobs from the US to Guatemala and government gave them 20 million to help pay for the move. I would rather see that 20 million used on health care.

There are many who believe that if you are forced to pay taxes then you should be allowed to demand certain things from the government in return. Many of those people feel that health care is one of the things you should be given and that it is something every citizen of a country should be given, not something you have to earn.
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