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Originally Posted by Nebe
I'm about to be totally tasteless but if a single mom chooses not to have an abortion and then goes off of welfare to the tune of $30 grand a year or what ever it pays out... You will end up paying a hell of a lot more then. There's that tasteless saying that the GOP stops caring for you the moment you are born.
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I don't think that's tasteless, I think it's a fair point. My response would be, I would love to pay more taxes to take care of babies saved by outlawing abortion, and I am certain that a huge % of anti-abortion folks would feel the same way. Conservatives don't claim that we shouldn't pay taxes, we just don't want to pay for useless, wasteful things. I'm happy to pay to take care of people in need.
That tasteless saying about the GOP not caring after you are born is a great bumper sticker, but it's demonstrably false. A study called "Who Really Cares" showed conculsively that conservatives are actually more charitable than liberals. Not that liberals are stingy, because they aren't. But to suggest that Republicans don't care? That's nonsense. That sayong isn't tasteless, but it sure is thoughtless. Again, deigned to demonize the opposition, instead of responsing to what we are actually saying.