Dear Fox pundits:

I want to help explain something to you all: First, grab a pay stub. See those amounts for Medicare and FICA? Those are deductions that are taken from you. It’s YOUR money. You should expect to get that back in your retirement. You are “entitled” to it. That does not, in spite of your own protests to the contrary, make you a socialist.

Do you pay insurance premiums? Then you are entitled to coverage. Receiving coverage you already paid for does not make you a freeloader, even though insurance socializes the risk among a number of people.

Do you have a driver’s license? Then you are entitled to drive. Driving on roads does not make you a socialist, even though the roads were built by socializing the burden of building the roads.

Do your children ride a bus to school? Did you have to pay extra for this, or were the costs socialized by school tax levies? It’s your money, remember? So riding the bus does not mean your children are freeloading socialists.

Civilizations are, to a large extent, built on the socialization of certain elements. Unless you want to maintain your own police, fire, defense, roads and bridges etc, you benefit from a form of socialization. You’ve paid with your tax dollars for the above services…..you are ENTITLED to them.

Now, does that help you understand?

That said, how is a corporation that avoids paying taxes on large profits, but still makes use of the public infrastructure for their profits, but aren’t contributing to its maintenance NOT considered freeloaders? How about the ones that pay such low wages that employees are referred to federal and state programs funded by taxpayers in order to make ends meet? How is that not considered outright theft?

Food for thought!