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Re: Conservatives give grant to conservative magazine
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Gabby in QC
And now for the topic of this thread ... I find the inclusion of the phrase "on behalf of all taxpayers" completely irrelevant.
Governments, whatever their political affiliation and at whatever level, do all sorts of things "on behalf of all taxpayers" - yet not all taxpayers may agree with whatever measures a government brings in, nor what funding a government doles out.
Healthy people pay for sufferers of chronic illnesses, childless people pay for children's education, people whose religion opposes abortion pay for its use as a "medical procedure," people who don't own cars pay for road construction and repairs, people who've never been unemployed pay for those who are, etc.
In other words, if we accept we live in a society, we should be able to accept that not everything a government does will be to our specifications and expectations.
Perhaps we should stop with the petty accounting worthy of 10-year-olds measuring the size of cake portions given to them.
Or perhaps, if one wishes to continue in that vein, one should ask for a list of all the magazines that received government funding.
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