Explain to me how this works again...I'll presume by "produce" that you mean make something. So I own a manufacturing plant that "produces" someething. I have employees that are "makers". So I "take" their jobs and ship them to China, so now I am not a producer anymore, and neither are they. I have plenty of wealth because I pay Chinese workers 1/8 of what I paid my workers here, but now my US workers have become "takers" because I put them on unemployment, but I'm a hero to...a government employee like yourself whose entire salary/benefit package is paid by taxes?
I didn't write the definition, so I don't know the authors absolute meaning or intentional meaning, what I do know is that my interpretation of the definition does not reflect the example you presented in your post. (I am not going to go any further on this point on AGO, although your point is valid
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However, I do feel that in America there is a growing movement towards complete lack of accountability for self, autonomy, and personal responsibility for actions or lack thereof, with a growing sentiment towards a sense of entitlement of everything and earning nothing.
As far as my entire salary/benefits being paid for by taxes, the agency I work for was the primary source of revenue for the US government for over 100 years after its creation and was self-sustainable without any tax money. Although this is no longer the case, we still collect a substantial amount of revenue for the government through commercial/personal duties(tariffs), administrative fees and fines, administrative/criminal seizures, criminal fines, forfeitures.....etc.
I’m the guy sitting in a car for 12 hours in the wee hours of the morning, following a guy, with a bunch of other guys through Hudson and Essex Counties who wants to blow something up in NYC. I don’t think the average tax payer has a problem with paying my salary, or at least half of it. :dblthumb2:
