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Wow. What a way to stereotype and lump a bunch of people into the same basket! I live and work in Alabama, and believe me, I pay plenty of taxes. Granted, my state has a lot of poorer sections, and my taxes go towards supporting them, but according to this rant, I'm still a "parasite."
This article is like saying, "All black people are criminals" or "All Southerners are stupid" or "All women are weak." Yes, there are black people that are criminals, yes there are stupid Southerners, and yes, there are weak women. But to lump an entire category of people (in this case, a state) into the same category, is just narrow-minded.
In my not-so-humble opinion, lumping states into this parasite vs. producer basket is deflecting where the real problem lies: in the welfare system, which was never intended to be a long-term, multi-generational program; in government overspending and mis-spending; and in the mentality of "I pay taxes; therefore, I own you." Believe me, I heard that plenty of times when I was a teacher, and guess what? I was a taxpayer then, too! So I had just as much ownership of myself as the parent who was trying to tell me that little Johnny shouldn't fail even though he never did any homework and flunked his tests. 
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FIRST off, dear Red Staters: If your town’s economy depends on a nearby dam, canal, harbor, airport, military base, interstate highway, national park or monument, or prison, just STFU. Because you are, in every way possible, a parasite, living off something the rest of us paid to build.
I work on a military base and pay more than my fair share of taxes. Additionally, the military base that I work on was built in the 1960's, so you can STFU, because YOUR taxes didn't pay for it! It was already built before most of you were born. And if the military base were to shut down, I'd lose my job, and wouldn't be able to pay taxes. But hey, according to you, I'm a parasite anyway, so it's just expected for me to live off the gubment. I think I might just resign tomorrow and apply for welfare.
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SECOND: If you are a homeowner who takes a mortgage interest deduction — which is how the rest of us subsidize your house, and with it your status in the middle-class — we don’t want to hear another word from you about how you made it all on your own. And that goes for those of you who got your education via the GI Bill, or took out an SBA loan, or went to well-funded public schools back when such things existed. You are what you are because we believed in you, and invested in you. And we’re deeply insulted that you refuse to even acknowledge that fact.
So trying to get back more of the taxes that I PAID by taking a mortgage interest deduction is WRONG? I would say that NOT taking any legal deduction you can is INSANE. Do those of you who have children deduct them as a dependent? Or do any of you file as Head of Household to get more taxes back? Shame on all of you, then!
Also, the GI Bill is a very small price to pay for those who served in our nation's military, and is actually an INVESTMENT towards someone's education so that they can get a decent-paying job and thus PAY TAXES. Same with an SBA loan. A "loan" isn't a handout.
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THIRD: Don't come crawling to us to support those kids you couldn't afford to have, but refused to allow contraception or abortions or actual fact-based sex education to prevent. It's just that simple. Our blue-state babies are better off in every way that matters because we plan our families.
I don't have kids; how's that for family planning?? And because I don't have kids, I'm not asking anyone to support them. In fact, maybe I deserve a REFUND because I saved you blue-staters some money by not having to dish out your hard-earned tax money to educate my children.
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FOURTH: Don't ask us to pay to educate your kids if you're not willing to have us teach them what we know about the world. We believe in free, comprehensive, rigorous and reality-based public education because it’s done more than any other government service to make us rich, powerful and successful; and we want the same for you.
See above.
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FIFTH: Between federal water reclamation projects and farm subsidies, we are paying you zillions of dollars to grow stuff we'd actually rather not eat. Don’t look now, but those of us in blue cities and states are moving away from your petrochemical-saturated GMO-bred CAFO-grown industrial “food” products as fast as we possibly can. There aren’t enough organic and community-supported farms to feed all of us yet — but we have taken responsibility for this, and are working hard on the problem.
So I guess the new EarthFare that just opened up in Huntsville doesn't really belong here, since there aren't any petrochemical-saturated GMO-bred CAFO-grown industrial “food” products to be found there. Silly me for shopping there. In fact, I think I'm going to start protesting in front of the store, since red-staters like me don't give a flying f*ck and aren't taking any responsibility for anything.
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SIXTH: We are so over your bigotry. Again: we know from our own long experience that including women, gays and minorities makes us not only culturally richer; it also makes us more economically productive as well.
Bigotry: stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own
Hypocrisy: a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess
Mirror: a reflecting surface, designed to give a faithful representation, image, or idea of
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FINALLY: If you want to pretend global warming isn't happening, you do not get to come whining to us when you get hit with droughts or floods. We're not going to send FEMA to bail you out. We're not going to build canals to give you our water.
Droughts and floods have been happening for millennia. I'm not saying that global warming isn't happening, but to say that it is the only cause of droughts and floods is completely unfounded. As for building canals...that's funny. California is a "blue" state whose entire west coast borders the sea, yet they rely on water from the Colorado River and are well-known for the California Water Wars. No state, whether blue or red, has any say in whether there is more or less rain from one year to another.
So do me a favor, Ayn Rand and supporters: Look for the REAL problems and then come up with a REAL solution that doesn't generalize to the point of not only being insulting, but being downright wrong as well.
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