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to reduce federal income taxes. It isn't as if the states pay for an army or navy to supplement the federal army or navy.
The half that don't pay income tax are essentially the young, who don't wor k because they are working on getting educated enough to be able to work, a nd the retired, whom nobody actually sees as lazy if they don't work. Krw d oes make an exception for me - according to him I don't work because I'm la zy, whereas I see it as not working because none of the people to whom I ap ply for jobs are willing to hire me. At 74 I'm entitled to be retired, and get pension income on this basis. I'd still prefer to work, though my ditch
-digging days are behind me.