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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re: taking “other people’s money.”  This characterization of taxation for the public good is so toxic.  Your money is not your “freedom.”  The government has the right to tax you for the good of the public.  Your taxes pay for roads you never use, research for diseases that never affect you, wars that have nothing to do with your safety.  But somehow paying for healthcare is “immoral.”

This dummy is the same guy who used to call taxes “rape,” or the dummy who kept going on and on that universal healthcare was unconstitutional.  Now his bizarre argument is that it’s immoral.  Do you even understand what moral means?[/quote]

My money is not my freedom, I agree, my money is my personal property. And yes the government has been granted broad powers by the US Constitution to tax. Similarly the US government has broad powers to spend under the "general welfare" clause. All of this is right. Certainly my taxes have paid for roads I do not use, and paid for research that I don't directly enjoy. The difference here is that many of these programs were put in place with the rationale that these contribute to a greater good benefit the society as a whole. No roads were built because someone claimed "I need a road and someone else needs to pay for it". No scientific research was done by claiming "this discovery needs to be funded by someone else". Yet we have posters in this thread arguing that we need health care laws because other people need to pay for their health care costs. It's not immoral for the government to pay for health care, it's immoral for someone to think that they are entitled to other people's money or labor to pay for their own healthcare.

Look, maybe it's all a big misunderstanding, maybe people on this thread *DONT* feel they are entitled to other people's money. They just want the nation to come together to see that this is for the greater good and do it out of a sense of collective wish to help each other. But then, why so many posts arguing against me when I questioned the sense of entitlement expressed by PPs?[/quote]

The OP is doing PRECISELY what you "want" people to do.  She is urging others to come together and vote for people who will implement the greater good.  Your insistence that people feel they are "entitled to other people's money" is just bizarre and counter-factual.
No one is suggesting the OP go steal money form her neighbor to pay for her daughter's medical costs.  People are suggesting that we, the people, vote in a way to ensure the greater good for all people.  (Because yes, PP, even you and your family will one day need medical care.)[/quote]

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