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We're being taken advantage of, but not by government as much as the culture of private capital. You overstate the "culture of dependency", since those who "don't pay any taxes at all" pay sales taxes and indirect fees, and their landlord's taxes, and so on; and their honest work in a factory, or in retail, or in other largely service-based industries accrues great benefit for their employers with little direct benefit for themselves (including and especially health care). The rich get richer, and the middle class blame the poor for their problems. Was ever thus.