08-25-2022, 03:52 AM
C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=Acer]
It seems rather unChristian to begrudge the good fortune of others.
It isn't the good fortune that is begrudged. If they had funded this via lottery sales or a settlement against private colleges, or any other revenue source besides taxes that would be one thing. Even if they would have made it a tax deduction to reduce income taxes to zero that would have been more agreeable. But straight up gifting $20k to someone who made the conscious choice to be irresponsible with their future is....well, irresponsible with others money.
The past is the past. We make the future better. Imagine how my grandparents, great-grandparents and all Black Americans of that time felt paying taxes in America to build neighborhoods, institutions, schools and roads they were banned from.