re: I'm coming to realize that conservative thought is outnumbered badly on FB

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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."

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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.

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

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People aren't birds. I would think that would be obvious. Trump supporters are even dumber that I thought I guess.