"DSK" wrote in message
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JimH wrote:
Prices are not fixed. I can buy a pair of jeans for $10 or $100. I can
buy a t shirt for $3 or $150. They both wear the same and serve the same
purpose.

So, if you are rich and want to buy a pair of jeans, they charge you $100?
If you are poor, the same store sells the same jeans for $10?

Where is this? It is certainly not happening in my part of the country.

I guess my logic went right over your head. I will not bother to try to
explain it to you.



The super rich gain the most from gov't services? How so?

Basic- they have more to lose if the gov't fails to protect their stuff


That was not an answer. In fact, it was a bunch of baloney.

Oh really? Can you answer in terms that don't make it obvious that your
mind is extremely closed?


A case can easily be made that the poor in fact benefit more from gov't
services than the wealthy.

Yes it can, but that case is based on a lot of misconceptions and wishful
thinking.


... Welfare, housing supplements, food stamps, health care
subsidies....the list goes on and on.

If you think those are "benefits" then why don't you live on them?

They are not benefits? What are they then?


Does the welfare system cost the gov't more than the court system? More
than the military? More than the service on the federal debt?

The rich benefit more from those services than the poor? How about some
links to back up your claim.




... And in many cases, those same folks pay absolutely no taxes.

When you have absolutely no money, it's difficult to pay taxes.



Thanks for making my case.




The majority of time spent by the police is in the poor/high crime areas
of the city.

And this is for the benefit of the poor?? No, it is to keep them from
stealing *your* stuff.

Police protection is a benefit. What would you call it?


For example, do you find more poor people in prison, or rich people? Hey,
usually most long term inmates have incomes below $50,000/yr! Therefor
they are getting a tremendous gov't benefit at the expense of wealthier
taxpayers!

And that is the fault of the wealthy?



The poor definitely benefit more from the gov't than even the middle
class.

Yeah, right.

Yep.