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Originally Posted by Lotus
It is difficult to be more mistrusting of the government than I am. I am fiercely independent politically because I trust no politicians and the higher up the ladder they are, the less I will trust them. I am not arguing to trust the government.
But the point is we are already required by law to financially support government programs. And in an emergency you will take advantage of this situation. My tax money enables you to do so. Given this, if I say that I will pay for your fire protection, but won't pay for your health protection, I am drawing an utterly arbitrary line.
Let me put this differently: you already argued that you would help others in need, such as Over the Mountain. National health care will simply normalize this situation so that those in need will get the help. It is actually not much different from what you have argued in terms of people in a community sticking together.
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You can't have it both ways! You sound like a Neo-con talking about Jesus and then dropping bombs on people without a declaration of war. You can't sit here and tell me the government is corrupt and you don't trust them, except for this issue. It doesn't work that way. I pay the police and fire dept with my local taxes. I have a say in who the chiefs are. I can go to the county supervisor and have them removed. They are held accountable for their actions.
In the end it doesn't matter. My governor and state legislature has told Obama and Congress to eat a dick. I'm not paying. When that BS bill gets passed, we're filling a lawsuit on the twisted sisters in Washington. End of discussion.