Dad2three
Gold Member
You and an associate go out to lunch and you both order identical steak dinners.
The tab comes to $100. You two owe $50 each.
But the restaurant has a policy that if you are wearing a red tie with the restaurant logo on it, you get to deduct $20 from your share of the check.
You bought such a tie yesterday and are wearing it.
The tab is still $100, so while you are hootin and hollerin about "getting to keep more of my money", your associate is having to shell out $70 instead of $50.
And he thinks the deduction scheme is a ripoff, and that you are an idiot.
Gov't isn't a friendship. Bad analogy