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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by tw04 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:18AM (#38610189)
But our society rewards your societal contributions via monetary rewards which results in you paying taxes. Sure, the money you get does not necessarily reflect the value of you contributions fairly in most cases, but I think I can count on one hand the number of people I have met in my life that pay no taxes and are still a net benefit to society.

And not paying taxed can be because they have no job and make no money, or are so rich as to be able to write off all their income because they think they don’t owe anyone anything.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by robertlagrant on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:38AM (#38611391)
> I think I can count on one hand the number of people I have met in my life that pay no taxes and are still a net benefit to society

Stay at home parents would fall into this category. I think the unit is "family" if it's a family, and not "person".

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