| reply to chesney09
Re: USA numba 1 The point is simple, and you missed it completely. The USA has turned into a culture where greed being first is considered ok. All those taxes you don't want to pay are what prop up the society you enjoy living in. People hate paying taxes, but they love having good roads, schools (those that have children anyway), and emergency services. Other social services are just as integral in bringing society as a whole forward. (drug treatment, federal housing assistance, medicare, etc.)
Greed is the feeling you're leaning on when you think that you are "indentured to the government". The government is partially supposed here to make sure you (or the masses of people in general) don't have to work in a sweat shop 16 hours a day just to "pay off" what you owe your plantation owner. However, I'm sure you're so smart and great at what you do that that wouldn't be the situation for you, right? Don't kid yourself. |
| The Greed you are referring to is the same greed that encouraged the Irish, Germans, Poles, Chinese, Russians, etc to leave behind the poverty in their home countries for a better life here in the US. They worked in sweat shops, were buried in mines, died building the railroads, and it was still better than from where they came. THEY CHOSE TO COME HERE AND WORK IN SWEATSHOPS OUT OF GREED! THEY WANTED A BETTER LIFE! Greed is part of every human, every animal, every plant every organism. Americans have not cornered the market on greed, and the Chinese are trying hard to prove that as they work hard to heat up their economy.
The taxes we pay do not really "PROP UP" our society, and in most cases they actually slow it down. The GREED of big government is what removes the incentive for one to improve their station in life. And yes, I do mind paying taxes for things like Schools, drug treatment, (and the war on drugs), Federal Housing and Medicare. These programs have all had a negative impact on our culture.
Most Americans, and even most seniors, know little or nothing about Medicare. Even before Medicare was created in 1965, more than three out of four seniors (that's 75%) were protected by a safety net for medical assistance and the average life expectancy for older Americans was on the rise. The growth of Medicare forced seniors into a regime that restricts their health care choices, fails to protect them against catastrophic medical costs, jeopardizes the doctor-patient relationship, and threatens to invade their medical privacy.
Since the government has taken over education (about 175 years ago), the percentage of total income that actually makes it to schools has gone down, while the amount we are taxed continues to go up. This is called government waste.
Federal housing means that if I work hard, and am a productive member of society, I am punished. I am taxed so that someone else (of even more modest means) can become a home owner while I continue to rent.
Nowhere in the Constitution is the government tasked from keeping us out of sweatshops. This is just another indication that you are from the generation that thinks that the world owes them something. Please tell me why it is better to be indentured by the government than by a plantation owner?
Why is it that you assume that most people are so stupid and ill-equipped to deal with the world that it takes an intrusive, expensive government to take care them at what amounts to not much more than subsistence levels? |
