'Everything Government gives you was taken from someone else.'
And also a little bit from you, if you pay taxes at all.
City maintenance, public services, utilities, farm subsidies, etc aside;
Paying in taxes to provide basic needs for the lower class is probably a LOT cheaper than forcing businesses to pay their employees a fair wage. ;p Big business NEEDS a large, undereducated, baby-making minimum-wage workforce to continue to churn out money.
How I Get My Paycheck:
1. Long ago, the world was born, be it a big bang, a god fucking a cow, whatever.
2. Eventually, humanity appeared.
3. Humanity began forming groups, or, societies.
4. Humanity began trading between these groups, often by walking long distances.
5. Someone came up with the wheel, to make the treks more bearable, and eventually they made carts to be pulled by animals.
6. Time passes, and despite constant attempts to destroy itself, humanity starts exploring the entire world, via boats and other means.
7. Eventually, the North American continent stabilizes itself as the "United States," and some territories some other places own. Citizens of the US don't care who owns what, as long as they can eventually take the land that they want.
8. Monetary systems are put into place, and the first types of "money" are put into the public sphere. No one alive today printed the first dollar.
9. Humanity invents the car, all while the state of "Wisconsin" is founded by Wisconsin Union 1848.
10. The beginning of a public education system is established.
11. The store known as Target is founded.
12. Somewhere in the middle of all of this, certain genetic triggers have been passed from generation to generation, resulting in the birth of my parents, and eventually, me.
13. I am allowed to attend public schools throughout my life, allowing me to earn enough of an education to graduate from a public university.
14. With my advanced degree, I eventually land a variety of jobs, but the only place I can safely earn full time pay is at a store known as Target.15. A set amount of pay is agreed upon,
in exchange for my services in handling work in the stock room.
16. Someone, somewhere builds the items that stock the Target shelves.
17. A truck driver drives the items to a distribution center, and then another driver from there to our store.
18. A team of workers puts said items on the shelves in the store.
19. A customer takes
their money, and purchases one of our items, requiring another worker who is STILL not me to check them out.
20. After two weeks of more customers doing this,
and me satisfactorily documenting our back-stock, I am given a pay check from Target.
In the grand scheme of things, the bolded section is all I have to do with the money I am given every two weeks. Meanwhile, the fact history passed the way it did, and the pure chance I was born, and the fact society feeds itself, is the main reason I have money. My hard work is only one part of a grander scheme. But I guess I'm just a liberal pansy who should be instead yelling "It's my money and I need it now!"