<p>Re: Mooching off the taxpayers.
You have a point, and I recognize this in my point 2 in the original post.
Our government has many disincentives for hard work and paying your own way. You can view almost every cost externalization and malinvestment it causes as leading to someone mooching off the taxpayer, whether it is the CEO of a defense firm or the shack-up honey with a kid, a nephew, and $12k in income getting a $9k tax refund. We all have to make a call on which teat we sidle up to, but none of succeed in avoiding them all.</p>