08-27-2015, 09:46 PM
(08-27-2015, 09:30 PM)jakefromstatefarm Wrote: Has nothing to do with not wanting to pay for anyone's healthcare that doesn't pay taxes. I don't want to pay for anyone else's healthcare, period.
As to your second point, why is it so hard for you to grasp the point that I have a vested interest in my community having a strong police presence and a crime-free area to live in? Besides your hyperbolic argument that my family might die of some mysterious infectious disease if my entire neighborhood doesn't have a taxpayer-funded health care plan, I've yet to hear any rational argument that refutes mine.
Again, public safety is at the very top of the list of responsibilities of government, especially at the local level. You can make your argument that healthcare is a public safety issue as well if you want to, but I don't agree. We already have a plan to provide medical care for the poor, and MOST emergency rooms will write-off emergency room visits for the indigent.
I see this stuff as nothing more than people who want someone else to pay for their stuff.
If some homeless guy on the opposite end of your county who doesn't pay any taxes (which is evidently your definition of humanity its self) gets beaten up, how is it in your vested interest for the police to do anything for him? By the way, why do you believe that the government should run based upon your vested interest?
"Mysterious" infectious disease? I guess Google was too tough for your enterprising, self-made, hard-working 'Murican self, eh?
