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by jacquesm 954 days ago
It's the same excitement that I feel when I visit a relative in hospital and see they're taken care of without going bankrupt, when I take my kids to schools that my taxes paid for, on roads that my taxes paid for, in a country that isn't 10 meters under water because of the taxes that I paid in a place where poverty is reasonably rare (though not yet completely eradicated) and where because of that it is pretty safe to live and so on.

And what have those Romans ever done for us anyway?