The onslaught against undeserved government entitlements continues. Each unentitled person you know deserves to be confronted by you or at least anonymously reported to social services. In the meantime let’s take this “undeserved” entitlement issue further. Brace yourself.
Are you, including corporations, aware of the unearned entitlements you willingly “take”? Your taxes are relieved substantially every year, with a $3,500 per family member exemption, and then you are allowed a standard deduction of at least $12,000, along with possible business tax incentives/loopholes/subsidies, all of which amount to “unearned” entitlements. These entitlements reduce your tax obligations to support “we the people’s” (government) infrastructural services such as education, roads, justice systems, Medicaid, legislative bodies, police and fire protection.
You don’t have to claim unearned entitlements. So why do you make the claims and yet express outrage against the jobless and low-waged people receiving housing, food and other government assistance? Just wondering.
Jim Postma
Vancouver
