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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (36393)	5/2/2014 6:12:57 PM
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>> Would you advocate that I be excused from about 1/2 my property taxes because I didn't have kids? I've been forced to pay that for 40+ years, easily $100k+ and I'll never send a kid to public school. As I said here a week or two ago I see that as a fundamentally different kind of issue. I would not support ANYONE paying the 70-80B/year we pay to the federal government for a department of education. There are a lot of expenses paid locally I do not approve of. For example, I believe public libraries should be shut down because they've outlived their usefulness, yet my home town just built a new one for some unknown reason. You'll never get rid of libraries, no matter how useless they are. But I can vote on it, I know the people who are running and I can pick up the phone and talk with just about any of them. I cannot call up a federal bureaucrat and give him/her a piece of my mind. The Framers understood this would become a problem over time (even though 100 years later Teddy Roosevelt believed any person who wanted to shake the president's hand should have the right and access to do so on New Years Day). It is just a different thing to have to big government programs vs. small government programs and I don't think you can realistically draw any parallels between the two.