Dave, listen very carefully...........money is not "forcibly taken from you against your will". You are choosing to live in a society........in a culture. In a social construct, a contract is established. Like with any contract, there are benefits and negatives to such an arrangement. One of the negatives is you must pay a fee to participate in the contract.
There is so much wrong with this comment I don't know where to start. Whatever "contract" government may have had with us was breached long ago. We don't mind paying reasonable taxes, but that comes with a responsibility that government spend the money wisely and not borrow excessively. I feel not the slightest obligation to pay taxes at this point -- other than at the gunpoint of IRS -- because government has so broken its responsibility with taxpayers.
Let's call a spade a spade. There is a battle, exacerbated by Obama's class warfare, not between the haves and have-nots. Not all all.
The battle is between the workers and the nonworkers. It is between those of us who work hard to make whatever we can make, and those -- the 50% -- who lives off the backs of OUR hard work. It is between those who create wealth and those who consume it.
Obamacare represents a fundamental change in our legislative process that no one has talked about. For the first time in American history, a program was designed from the ground up to not only take wealth from the worker and give it to the non-worker, but also, importantly, to embed itself like a parasite in such a way that it can never be killed. SS and Medicare turned out that way but that was never the legislative intent. Obamacare is different, and for me it represents a tipping point.
My leanings are more libertarian than anything else; I am extremely moderate on social issues and have become more so in recent years. But none of that matters because libertarianism has no standing in this country, which forces me to choose sides with the two parties. And no matter what I feel socially, the fiscal irresponsibility of liberalism is an order of magnitude more important than any other consideration. You make no pretense: unconstrained, you will spend this country into absolute poverty.
Ted, if something is not done to force you work and pay your own bills, you will sit on your ass until us, the workers, have nothing left. That is not okay with me. You are not entitled. You don't have it coming. You must provide for yourself. |
