Eric, in your estimation is everything paid for by tax dollars socialist? Our roads, our schools, our courthouses? How else would these things be paid for if not by tax dollars? How would folks who perform a public service (firefighters, police, military) get paid if not by tax dollars? 

 

The only reason the military gets the benefits they do is because they sign their lives away to work a thankless job that only a very small percentage of the country is willing to do for all of the reasons I've already mentioned. So when teachers, firefighters, police, and other folks do the same then they are more than welcome to all the benefits they deserve. Other than that, not so much. I'm not knocking the folks who do those jobs, I have several firefighter friends, a few teacher friends and a few cop friends, and I appreciate what they do. But nothing comes close to what our military and their families sacrifice in the name of freedom for this country. 

 

I'm sorry if I seem super sensitive to this subject but it's extremely personal for me in ways you can't imagine. I don't mind discussion but you can't possibly know what you're saying because you haven't lived it. There's absolutely no comparison between civilian life and military life. At all. So to try to lump it all together in one box is impossible. 

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