<p>Okay, pencils down class. Here are the right answers.</p>
<p>“Exactly. As a tax payer, I don't want to pay for you decision to have a child you can't support.”</p>
<p>Since you are a college student, you are probably not a tax payer. If you actually have a job right now, you will get out the taxes you pay back, except social security. Social security is theoretically your money anyway, provided it doesn’t go under. Unless you made over 20k last year, you will not pay a dime for whatever you’re talking about. So shut the f*** up.</p>
<p>“An abortion always kills someone.”</p>
<p>If you think a fetus is a person. I don’t. But that argument is fruitless and been beaten to a pulp already. Moving on.</p>
<p>“but you do not have $50 to pay for an abortion? Not my problem”</p>
<p>It will be when the oft-neglected, poverty stricken Tyrone grows up on the streets and bumps into you one night. Might cost you more than the trillionth of a penny you theoretically tossed in.</p>
<p>“You do not have the right to have sex without consequences.”</p>
<p>You are grossly misusing the term “right.” Actually, you are allowed to have sex with any consenting adult without consequences. I guess you meant, “It’s not possible to have sex without consequences.” That is a grand, vague statement. Are there emotional and social ramifications from having sex? Yes. If you have sex regularly and use proper birth control, will you have a child? HELL NO. The chances are extremely low with proper precautions (condoms + pill) – less than 0.01% (1 in 10,000 – sex every day for 30 years). Are people educated enough about safe sex practices – no – we do need better sex education. The “head buried in sand” method we currently have is terrible.</p>
<p>“The government has no responsibility to ensure that you can have "safe" sex. You are trying to create a world where people can do whatever they want and the government will help them out and bail the out if something bad happens.”</p>
<p>Actually, the government has a vested interest in protecting people against the spread of deadly diseases; hence the criminalization of knowingly having sex with someone without informing them of your deadly disease.</p>
<p>Secondly, the right to birth control and abortion is not a “bail out” – it’s the opposite. People want the government to “back off” in matters that are none of its business – let U.S. citizens help them damn selves!</p>
<p>“To take from money from people and give it to those who have made poor decisions is morally wrong. People should be encouraged to give to charities that support those who are in bad circumstances.”</p>
<p>Luckily, the government is not intended to prescribe morality. Law and morality are not equivalent. What government class did you fail out of?</p>
<p>You’ve hit the nail on the head concerning charities, though. I think we should support our police departments, fire departments, school systems, and public parks on a charity-basis also. It’s all socialism, anyway. You know, zero money from taxes, but if I remember to give a few bucks to Officer whoever then I guess I’ll just--- oooh!!! I just LOVE those new red shoes at Macys!! Hey Daddy I think those new shoes will match PERFECTLY with the new Lexus you bought me!!! Hmm – better luck next year city infrastructure!</p>
<p>“When you allow irresponsible behavior, you only create more of it.”</p>
<p>Banning birth control or abortion DOES NOT LEAD TO LESS SEX. Read that statement again. Read it a hundred more times if you haven’t internalized it yet. This has been proven repeatedly, everywhere. People are just f-ing animals, okay, and there are only very few, if any, biological drives stronger than the urge to have sex. All this “banning” does is lead to more unwanted pregnancies, more poverty, more crime, more diseases, more deaths, and more ruined lives.</p>
<p>“personal responsibility is not good for women?”</p>
<p>Many times, getting an abortion is the vastly more responsible act, for all parties.</p>
<p>“It is not fair that I, as an individual, should have to pay for other people to get abortions because they made an irresponsible life decision.”</p>
<p>No one is trying to get pregnant. One is allowed to have sex even if there is a very small chance that is will result in pregnancy. There is a much greater chance that you will get into a serious car accident when you drive or ride a car. Do you still drive/ ride cars? Obviously. If you take all the precautions, but end up getting sideswiped by someone who blew a stop sign, are you accountable? By your logic, yes – because you could have easily avoided the catastrophe if you decided to abstain from traveling anywhere.</p>
<p>In other words, up yours.</p>
<p>“It is unfair that the top 5% would pay a higher percentage of taxes because that money os going to programs only the lower classes use. So, if these programs are almost exclusively used by the lower classes, shouldn't the lower class have to pay more?”</p>
<p>You’re right! The poor should pay their own high taxes that will go to paying for all the food and shelter they couldn’t possibly afford. Yes, they can give their meager money to the government who in turn will give them back their money and… Oh wait…</p>
<p>How dumb are McCain supporters? Seriously—was this a joke?</p>
<p>Some fundamentals you guys need to get through your head:</p>
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<li><p>The rich benefit by far the greatest from society. This is evidenced by the fact that the rich have been growing even richer over time, and the poor poorer. Nothing’s simpler than that. Look at yourself, for instance. Without your parent’s financial backing, you would not be able to attend college; you might have had to even work a full time job in high school to pay for food. You would likely end up in a minimum wage job somewhere, where I can point to you and laugh at how lazy you are and that this is completely your fault.</p></li>
<li><p>It is not free to live in this country; you are not entitled to live in this country for free. When you were born here and made a citizen, you implicitly agreed to follow this country’s laws. Some laws require that you pay money to support the government and infrastructure of this country. The agreement being: If you don’t like it, you are free to get the hell out.</p></li>
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<p>“It is essentially using everyone's money for a public use, and that generally benefits the working/lower classes.”</p>
<p>Yeah, totally, like building roads and highways, where poor people drive their cars. And giving money to Haliburton, Oil companies, and National Banks. And trillions have been given to the war machines. Stupid greedy poor people.</p>
<p>Next thing you know, they’ll want a meager fraction of what was spent above to feed a starving single mother or treat a lazy poor person who got stabbed on his way back from his graveyard shift. God I hate poor people they’re so gross and smelly!</p>
<p>Good thing Obama is slam dunking this election. Not that it’ll change much, but it’s “damage control” against McCain – Palin.</p>
<p>Some of you people are nuts.</p>