I need every penny I can get, so I do claim my kids on my W4.
Did you take free schooling for them?
No. With the exception of public school, I've paid for day care and pre-K when I needed it without using any government program. And we do not participate in the free lunch program either.
Stop by the library with them recently?
Nope. I go to the second-hand bookstore to purchase books for my kids. And don't folks without kids go to the library too? What a stupid point.
Take them to the county pool?
Definitely not. And again, I see plenty of childless people in those pools. Which is why my kids don't use them.
Use those neighborhood parks or athletic fields?
My kids go to our private community park which is maintained through association fees since it is not county-owned. And once again, childless people use those parks too.
How about I just take it to the next level, and let you know you're obviously a pompous Pharisee who doesn't like being caught at it!?!?
How about I take it to the next level and tell you that you are a jerk who should have stayed in exile.
OH! By the way, how does it feel to support a party that never ever wins? Seems like it's made you a wee lil' bit bitter.
Walk a mile in my shoes before you start talking. You have proven yourself to be an ignorant fool.
But don't you see...? Merely *having* a military and living under its protection from invaders makes us all dirty thieving socialists! ;-)
Yeesh. The Libertarians are proof that you can take a few interesting ideas and spin them into a totally unworkable system if you try hard enough. They keep getting mixed up with anarchism instead of conservatism.
Then you took a government subsidy for your kids. I don't care if you 'need every penny,' so does everyone else. That you think you need it more don't mean squat, Pharisee. The welfare queens think they need it more, too.
Did you take free schooling for them?"No. With the exception of public school, I've paid for day care and pre-K when I needed it without using any government program. And we do not participate in the free lunch program either."
Oh, good answer...as if in saying no you completely negate the fact that you ARE taking free schooling. That you paid for day care and pre-K and lunch just means you're carrying the load you ought to be carrying. Meanwhile, you gleefully send your kids to school on the taxpayer's dime.
"Nope. I go to the second-hand bookstore to purchase books for my kids. And don't folks without kids go to the library too? What a stupid point."
When someone like you is oblivious to the fact that libraries and public schools are primarily handouts to families, I suppose everything that might inundate your sanctimonious claim to be "not signed up with any kind of government assistance" is 'stupid.' You cash a check every day, just as Uncle Sam steals from our paychecks every day to support you and yours.
My kids go to our private community park which is maintained through association fees since it is not county-owned.
But I bet your 'private community park' is there because parks aren't taxed, even though they are a benefit to only neighborhood families. They tax lands used in exactly the same way on private lands, but government has been pressured by developers to give them credits for setting aside faux "parkland," another subsidy for development that will primarily benefit who? Families like yours.
And once again, childless people use those parks too.
Yep, I bet lots of children use those parks every day, and almost none of them have kids. But to make your anecdotal observation more obvious--I bet there are probably ten or fifteen people that use the high school football field for non-athletic events every year. That doesn't mean the public should be subsidizing high school football fields.
"How about I take it to the next level and tell you that you are a jerk who should have stayed in exile. OH! By the way, how does it feel to support a party that never ever wins? Seems like it's made you a wee lil' bit bitter. Walk a mile in my shoes before you start talking. You have proven yourself to be an ignorant fool."
Ooooh, I'll cry myself to sleep over that. When you can't defend your chompin' at the gummint tit, you pull out the childish insults. The only demonstration in ignorance here is 'stupid' l'il you. Families are subsidized in myriad ways, as was the point above. And your holier-than-thou comments to GuvShrinker notwithstanding, you ARE signed up with government assistance. You're just unhappy about not being able to get more by keeping even more of your money. And you're even unhappier when you get called on it. Typical pro-government "conservative"--you're just for the stuff that benefits you.
And one more thing--I support the ideals of the LP in a lot of ways. But I've always voted GOP. It's people like YOU that make it more likely that a pork-loving GOP Congress will get elected. That makes it ever more likely that Americans will vote differently next time, and then your glee at watching libertarians and fiscal conservatives unhappy at the huge imposition of government into American lives and failure of the GOP to do squat about it, will be followed by your own presence in the barrel--you big-government 'conservatives' wail and gnash your teeth, too, when you're taxed at ever higher levels for government you don't like.