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Shadowborn · 02-07-08

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Originally Posted by Wicked Lady

Actually I've found that I only pay about 2% more in taxes here with national healthcare as opposed to without it in America. And obviously that's offset by the fact that I don't have a co-pay every time I go see the doctor. So I don't begrudge the money going to someone else; it's not very much money. What I begrudge is that I have to take a citizenship test to show my "britishness", but Kareem is allowed to bring in 4 wives, and my taxes pay for all of them. It's the principle of the matter. The principle being that the government allows something that is fundamentally the opposite of the norm in the western world.

The point I was edging towards is that it's less about race and more about paying your money toward someone else's problem.

Don't "Kareem" and his four wives also have to take the same test and pay taxes? "Kareem" is hopefully smart enough not to have four wives unless he can afford to support them...most don't take more wives than they can provide for, and he'd be paying more taxes if he's making more money. If that's not true, than I think your problem is less with "Kareem" and more with an inadequate system of government. Write to your local member of parliament and complain.

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