You know, if my career choice had been different, I would probably think a lot more like you do. But my career almost requires that I have socialist tendencies. My professional life is devoted to making this little piece of the world a better place for a few dozen kids. While I might like the idea of a tax break and using the money to do what is important to me, I also realize that if people like me don't contribute to some social equalization for these kids, the cycles of poverty and neglect that many of them live in will continue for another generation. If my tax money helps one family make their life better enough that they don't need the social assistance in another generation, then the money will have been well spent.
I don't take anything as a personal affront. :) One of these days we will get around to that discussion of what libertarianism means to you, though. :)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-06 12:38 pm (UTC)You know, if my career choice had been different, I would probably think a lot more like you do. But my career almost requires that I have socialist tendencies. My professional life is devoted to making this little piece of the world a better place for a few dozen kids. While I might like the idea of a tax break and using the money to do what is important to me, I also realize that if people like me don't contribute to some social equalization for these kids, the cycles of poverty and neglect that many of them live in will continue for another generation. If my tax money helps one family make their life better enough that they don't need the social assistance in another generation, then the money will have been well spent.
I don't take anything as a personal affront. :) One of these days we will get around to that discussion of what libertarianism means to you, though. :)