Reply #102: I am getting so sick and tired of this "my tax dollars" crap.

[Raksha]

It isn't just YOUR tax dollars! It's everyone's tax dollars including the recipient's. Everyone pays taxes. Even homeless people have to pay sales tax on non-food items like toilet paper. Many of the people currently on food stamps are "nouveau poor," formerly middle class types who are down on their luck, possibly long-term unemployed. In the past they paid a lot in taxes, as several people explained earlier in the thread.

A lot of people here on DU have a major problem with THEIR tax dollars being used to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bail out banksters. That's a much more valid beef than using "your" tax dollars an excuse to micromanage someone else's life.