Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
This conversation makes me laugh.... Good thing we aren't having it in 2001 or 2009!! I remember an acquaintance and FO of mine who was former military and VERY right wing republican. Talked constantly about crappy social programs, freeloaders, etc... very much like this conversation. And then he got furloughed. No flying jobs to be found. I noticed he didn't turn down the unemployment bennies. I also noticed he didn't object when they extended them.
I turned them down when I got furloughed. Companies pay unemployment insurance, that in recent years had to be subsidized by additional taxpayer debt. However, it doesn't change the fact that the income tax you pay is stolen, and wasted. I find it insulting that the government thinks it knows how to spend my money better than I do.
My favorite is anti venom, they buy it for $900 in Mexico, and bill the government $80,000 for it. This is the waste I'm talking about. Taxes would be very small if it was an honest system.