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Originally Posted by Tommy
Gunner,
I think I understand that you are saying that I shouldn't oppose the spending of my tax dollars on things I don't support because you're tax dollars are being spent on things that benefit me that you don't support.
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Not exactly, and I'd prefer not to go down that road - it just leads to politicized wrangling with no real outcome.
My point is that Alabama gets 2/3 more back from the nation than it pays in... because the consensus is that the state needs the support. I don't think you can even categorize it as things you support and things you don't, unless you think the state (any state) could do without schools, hospitals, decent roads, levees, fresh water systems, subsidized power and quite a few other necessities of modern life. My point is that the mindset is that you (no matter which state you're actually from), and me, and all of us, benefit from a system that takes an interest in everyone's problems, whether they are of immediate affect to any one individual or not.
The climate change may not have affected you any more than messing up your gardening schedule. But bigger, essentially permanent change is coming, quite soon, and as someone whose life has benefitted from an "all for all" mindset, you perhaps have less stake in calling the crisis someone else's problem than you might have thought.