[tsowellfan]

No I didn’t. I paid taxes, and that money was paid to someone else.

That's what I said. If you're looking for an argument for the sake of an argument, go comment to someone else. Don't hair split with me, I have no time for that.

"paid into the system" is cliche, not literal. Geez!

BTW, you wanna buy a tunnel

[Tublecane]

“’paid into the system’ is cliche, not literal”

Cliches can be taken literally; I think you mean a figure of speech. Most people, I think, mean that phrase literally. That’s how cliches usually become cliches: by being excepted as true for a long time.

I don’t know why I was supposed to guess you were being facetious, especially since the prima facie meaning fit your use of it as justification for grabbing government goodies.