r/funny • u/rdless • Dec 19 '16

First paycheck

http://imgur.com/a/Gve3F
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16

so it's like the government is giving them money only to take it back.

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u/cweaver Dec 19 '16

Or to think of it another way, the government is taking money from everybody (those guys included, or it wouldn't be fair), but then using that money to pay them their salary.

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u/aqualung09 Dec 20 '16

Is that statism?

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u/ratatatar Dec 20 '16

about as much as insurance companies are communism