Illyrian,

Spoken like a true "taker".... You're justifying suckling off the state-welfare teat because you provide SOME value. Well, you get paid for your goods at the value set by your beloved free market. So if you can't afford to fix your own roads and run your own schools with that $$, then maybe you should either raise your prices... If your prices went up, we "king county" folks might just buy more local produce, which suddenly is more price competitive without all your subsidized infrastructure.

So you go on being proud of your rugged independence, when in fact your entire way of life exists only because you take 35c of every tax dollar I pay to fund it.

B
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