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  1. Benson, I have nothing but respect for you, your family and all of your hard work. However, I found your statement that the poor have little stake in their government because they don’t pay taxes (and may in the future pay even less) to be both condescending and — well, kinda offensive. In my opinion. Based on my opinion, I also made some assumptions about you. I don’t know you — they could be wrong.

    But let me point out the obvious flaw in your argument again. Paying taxes doesn’t give one a “stake” in the government. The government is not a corporation. We don’t own shares in it. We each get one vote, that’s it. And we get that vote whether we make your salary or your gardener’s.

  2. “I’d sooner move before my wife and daughter have to go to some government medical clinic, as they have in England.”

    Benson, there are many worse things than the UK National Health Service. In most cases, private operations are performed in NHS hospitals because they have the best equipment and the same doctors often have both public and private practices.

    I didn’t use to be a fan of the NHS but, having seen how the rest of the world does it, I have no complaints.