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They are not getting slaughtered. If they are so stupid to spend my taxes on greedy scams like this, why shouldn't I collect it back?

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> If they are so stupid to spend my taxes on greedy scams like this

Then our society has collectively failed in educating them. We could just let everyone fend for themselves and eat the weakest, but I don't mind my time and money directory or indirectly going towards helping others. Call it altruism.

So society is in the wrong and not their lazy apathetic ass? Got it.

No, but we're not going to get anywhere just calling them lazy and telling them to make themselves smarter. There's no point in condemning them and then turning around and doing nothing to help them. What does that accomplish?

There's plenty done to help them. Most of them just don't want it. They prefer to buy lotto tickets, bad food and watch TV and in their spare time, fall for greedy scams like this one.

You can forcefully take something from a person, you can never forcefully give them anything. Stop with the delusions.

It's also because they get to vote, and someday they could vote for communist / socialist / dictatorial redistribution of all wealth.

Poverty is costly for the rest of society too.

Poverty as we know it today was created the instant money came into existence. The only way for a tiny group of people to become obscenely rich is for huge masses of others to be kept chronically poor.

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