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"I went to school paid for by property taxes, but I don't think anybody else should because I obviously learned nothing about civics and society when I went to my property tax-funded school."
I'm not sure if it's possible to come across as more entitled, insular and anti-social than your hot take but I'm sure you'll give it the old college tries in responses here.
I did go go taxpayer-funded schools. They should have been funded by taxpayers who chose to create the children in those schools, like my parents.
How is arguing that people should pay their share entitled? There are a lot of services that everybody needs. Fire, police, roads, health care. We should all share the cost, because at some point, everyone needs those services, even if not right now.
Having children is a want, not a need. Children deserve an education, but the that should be a burden that the parents take on when they make the decision to have a child.
You went to a taxpayer-funded school. You live in a society built from the benefits of having a largely educated populace. And now you want to stop funding those benefits for the next generation.
That is practically the definition of entitled twit.
If you want to stop funding schools, fine. Stop using anything made by anybody educated in the past five generations, say. No roads, for example. Civil engineers were taxpayer-funded through their initial education after all. No medicine. Doctors and nurses again were funded by taxpayers in their initial educations. No housing. No water. No electricity. No telephony. AND FOR GOD'S SAKE GET OFF THAT COMPUTER!
You're a very, very, very limited thinker. I'd say at the very least the taxes paid for your education should be refunded since it apparently didn't take.
Having a fucking car is a WANT, not a NEED and yet you're over here masturbating the concrete snake. Take a fucking bus, you freeloading prick.
In most of the US, that simply isn't true. Without a car, you can't maintain a job. It is a need.
I don't have a car. I maintain a job. I live in Texas.
Buy a fucking bicycle and stop being a fat fuck. I'm sick of paying for your commie-ass roads, commie.
Also I think you may have missed the point.