Christine,
<<Like X, I am willing to pay quite a bit in taxes so that there is not a daily parade of suffering souls when I go outside, or anyone desperate enough to break into my little world at home and hurt me or my family just to survive, or get his next fix.>>
Excuse me, but there IS a daily parade of suffering souls when you go outside, and many who are willing to hurt you or your family. You can choose to be bogged down in this morass of human failure if you wish, but I won't. Either people have the guts to live, or they don't. I had plenty of help to get where I am, but I also made the effort. You can't help people who won't make the effort, and all of the resources that we currently spend on people who will not make the effort is a tremendous waste.
As an individual I can verify whether I am helping someone who will make the effort. The government programs cannot make that distinction. And if government social programs exist because of the willingness of the majority of voters to help others, wouldn't those same voters help others individually if the government programs didn't exist? You are abdicating the responsibility to deal with people on a personal level, for one thing, and, for another, you are not just giving your own dollars away but mine as well. Please explain the morality behind that.
Skipper |
