Reply #30: I'm not sure that would matter. [View All]

[LostInAnomie]

Most of the anti-social program nuts I know around here can not be reasoned with. They see any tax money going to anyone else as a direct theft from them. No matter how well reasoned, benevolent, or just the cause they will despise it.

Here's an anecdote from my experience in my community. A few years ago my community was going to build a new head start building to help the underprivileged children in our city. This building would have been built completely from state funds and would not have raised taxes one cent. Yet when ground was broken letters to the editor were written and local websites blew up in outrage over the fact that tax dollars were being spent on yet another social program. These people would rather see a generation of local children fall behind in school and never catch up than spend what would have been roughly two cents of their tax money to build a school. To me that is disgusting.