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acroyear'Party of Parasites' author took $1M in farm subsidies - KansasCity.com:
But if you do pay some taxes, you're entitled to a million dollars in government handouts, easly more than 100 times what you might have paid.
makes perfect sense to me.
ad. This guy may be an idiot, but that in no way justifies the burning of said trailer. The idiots who did so should be caught and punished for arson, regardless.
The Raytown farmer who posted a sign on a semi-truck trailer accusing Democrats of being the “Party of Parasites” received more than $1 million in federal crop subsidies since 1995.So there's the logic: if you don't pay taxes, you shouldn't get any government handouts.
But David Jungerman says the payouts don’t contradict the sign he put up in a corn field in Bates County along U.S. 71 Highway.
“That’s just my money coming back to me,” Jungerman, 72, said Monday. “I pay a lot in taxes. I’m not a parasite.”
After a story about Jungerman’s trailer ran in Sunday’s Star, however, some readers called him a hypocrite for criticizing others for getting government help while taking government subsidies paid for by taxpayers.
Jungerman said he put up the sign to protest people who pay no taxes, but, “Always have their hand out for whatever the government will give them” in social programs.
But if you do pay some taxes, you're entitled to a million dollars in government handouts, easly more than 100 times what you might have paid.
makes perfect sense to me.
ad. This guy may be an idiot, but that in no way justifies the burning of said trailer. The idiots who did so should be caught and punished for arson, regardless.
