On a financial group that I follow on Facebook, someone was asking about tax returns. In one of the follow up comments someone wrote this:

"If you receive more money back than you paid in taxes, you aren't receiving your tax refund, you are receiving mine."

All hell broke loose. The thread has been since deleted, but they called this guy every name in the book. Dozens of comments bashing him. Maybe 2 or 3 defending him.

Second. I love me some Goldman Sachs Elevator. This weekend, they posted this pic:

With the caption: How is it different for poor people?

Again, dozens of people bashing them. A couple of supports.

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Posted by SlackMaster

Baton Rouge

Member since Jan 2009

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Posted on 1/15/17 at 9:07 pm to anc

quote:
I'm coming to realize that thinking is outnumbered badly on FB

FIFY

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Posted by Pinecone Repair

Burminham

Member since Nov 2013

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Posted on 1/15/17 at 9:08 pm to anc

I only use FB for friends/family/customers and anti SJW groups.

Pretty much everything else is too lib-prog for me.

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Posted by chalmetteowl

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Member since Jan 2008

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Posted on 1/15/17 at 9:09 pm to anc

mostly it's younger people on facebook... the average Trump voter over about 50 doesn't spend much time online

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Posted by mahdragonz

Member since Jun 2013

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Posted on 1/15/17 at 9:12 pm to anc

Yep.

Too bad someone is forcing you to use it.

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Posted by goofball

Member since Mar 2015

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Posted on 1/15/17 at 9:15 pm to anc

Absolutely no one succumbs to political correctness on facebook. Everyone shares exactly what they are thinking on there. It's all 100% honesty.

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Posted by 31TIGERS

Mike’s habitat

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Posted on 1/15/17 at 9:15 pm to anc

Replace the words "feed" with "give them anything for free", "birds" with a different "word", and "feeding" with "continuing to give them handouts" "birds" and you'll have the answer to the riddle of what's wrong with America.

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Posted by kingbob

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Member since Nov 2010

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Posted on 1/15/17 at 10:45 pm to anc

It's outnumbered here as well. It's outnumbered everywhere. Every dollar has its constituency. That's why shrinking government is so impossible.

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Posted by TaekwondoJesus

Member since Dec 2016

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Posted on 1/15/17 at 10:45 pm to anc

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"If you receive more money back than you paid in taxes, you aren't receiving your tax refund, you are receiving mine."

Only for that year's accounting period.

If I pay 10k in taxes one year, and pay none the next year and get 5k back on top of that, I am receiving my own refund from a previous year.

I mean we could go with your logic I guess, if you want to classify large numbers of retired people who have paid plenty of taxes into the system as leaches. Mitt Romney had no problem with doing that. Of course there is no logical reason to stop at benefits paid through the IRS. Anyone on subsidized student loans is getting a federal benefit equal to the difference between interest on a market rate loan and interest on their subsidized loan. This would make large numbers of college and professional school students dependent birds by your logic.