Reply #95: America - love it or leave it? [View All]

[Progress]

Nice attitude for a progressive. If you want me to complain about corporate fraud and corporation avoiding taxes, fine: I don't like corporate fraud, and I don't like it when corporations don't pay enough taxes. Happy? Are there any other unrelated issues I have to weigh in on here before we can discuss the one this thread is about? Global warming? Reproductive choice? The Middle East?

I wonder if you really did read my post. If welfare was available to only whites, then it would not be a case of "Everybody pays for everybody," would it? It would be a case of everybody pays for a select few. It's fine for welfare to go to poor people because that's what it is designed for. It wouldn't be fine for welfare to go only to white people. The second scenario is discrimination and the first is not.

There is nothing about the state of marriage that requires a financial benefit. It's a throwback to the days when women were expected to get married and the husband was expected to be the breadwinner. The right wants to encourage this traditional family structure and that's why singles are financially punished even though they probably have a greater financial need.