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WalterBrighttoday at 3:35 AM1 replyview on HN

About 0.14% of the population is Mennonite. By filing 4029, you assert that your community is going to provide the equivalent of SS and Medicare, so it amounts to about the same thing.


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nrrtoday at 5:42 AM

My remark was a rebuttal to the assertion that these contributions were guaranteed. That notwithstanding, I'm unsure that I agree that it amounts to about the same thing; we tend to take care of each other as a matter of due course and not as a transaction.

The mainstream Anglo-American attitude around this kind of support leaves me scratching my head a lot of the time.

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