That doesn't mean folks don't have skin in the game.
Let's take my grandmother (long at rest lo these many years). She had 10 kids. It was the Great Depression. They were poor. Grandpa never made enough money to pay income taxes at either the state or federal level.
Her two brothers were WWI combat veterans. Her eldest child, her only son, fought in Pelau in WWII. Three son in laws, and their 8 or 9 (combined) brothers fought in WWII, some of them in the heaviest fighting in any more any time in history.
Three grandsons served during/in The Nam. Several great grandsons have been to Iraq, Afghanistan and other combat situations.
Skin in the game?
It's our country. It was her country. If they'd had Food Stamps she'd had qualified in spades.
I'm not sure where you are coming from? Do you imagine that only people who pay cash money to the government get to be patriotic?
Did I ever say that?
When did I say that?
Never.
Where are you "coming from" on this? It seems to me from your posts that there is very little daylight between you, Obama, Reid, and Pelosi in terms of Food Stamps and Entitlements that have bankrupted our nation.