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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (24335)	7/25/2012 11:01:46 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 42652

Should only the compassionate carry the societies burden? The flip side of that is not necessarily A taking from B to give to C. This is not binary. Sure, the compassionate give easily and others don't. But there are ways to get most of the others to chip in short of government force. When society expects it of them, most will comply even if grudgingly, to avoid the burden be it in shame, loss of status, loss of economic opportunity, whatever penalty society chooses to impose. Sure, there are some who still will not contribute but there are always outliers and outliers don't matter unless they are destructive, which has criminal consequences, or their numbers reach critical mass. The use of government force is counter-productive in that it produces resistance among both the unwilling and those who would otherwise be willing but resent the heavy-handedness in practice or on principle. Tax avoidance, the most obvious manifestation of that resistance, is rampant. There's nothing constructive about fostering that.

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