[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Here’s a riddle/question/scenario:
For 200+ years, people have been living in a house and those who make enough to do so have been paying money into a pool based on their income that is then redistributed amongst all of the household members in the forms of services that all members of the house can use, regardless of whether they paid or not. Everyone in the house is related to each other. Those who cannot pay, for a whole slew of reasons, would otherwise contract disease, resort to stealing, not bathe and stink up the house and so on, to the detriment of EVERYONE in the house.
The money in this pool is redistributed amongst a select few who have been voted into this “redistribution” position by all members of the house who chose to vote. These people are voted in based on how they say they will redistribute this money.
For many, many reasons, there are more and more people in the house every year whose fortunes are worsening. They cannot be kicked out of the house and as their fortunes worsen, the money they can put into the pool is less and less, while those who can put the most into the pool continue to make more and more money for reasons unrelated to the plight of the poor household members.
It’s voting time and the money MUST be put into the pool because there have been incidents throughout the household’s existence where the people claimed they would pay for certain services on their own w/o the input of the redistributors, but the money was mostly spent on themselves; the garbage was never taken out, the dishes never got done, laundry never got done and so on, until these things became a problem for everyone in the home. So the redistributors have given those in the household the power to pay for these services on their own but it didn’t happen. So it’s time to decide where the money goes and things in the household, while not horrendous, are not as good as they were in years past.
Should the people:
a) pocket all their money again?
b) spend it on fighting with the neighbors
c) spend it on a lawyer for one of the household members who got arrested for stealing some of the money in the pot?
d) spend it to call the plumber to fix the sink because he needs the job to stay afloat, even though you’ve already paid him to fix it before and he never actually fixed it right?
e) spend it on strawberry plants for the garden, even though it’s nowhere near the right time of year to plant strawberries?
f) spend it on the plan that the redistributors have to clean up the poorest members of the house so everyone in the house doesn’t have to smell their shit and catch some of the viruses the poor ones have picked up along the way? [/quote]
Holy shit , I think they should move next door:)[/quote]
And leave the rest of the family to deal with all the bullshit in the house? Your self-preservation instincts are finely honed, but I fear your familial relations are not.[/quote]
You are not my family and my government is not my mother.
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And people without healthcare aren’t horse owners headed to the same place I am.[/quote]
One is a property rights issue that can debated using any and all pieces of property, the other the attempt to create the illusion that we are all a big happpy family and in this together.
We are not.