Government has nothing to do with my success. If anything, they have been an obstacle.
I should not be forced to pay for retirement in a government fund that has absolute SHIT returns and that I will probably never see a dime of. I could take all I pay into social security in a low interest savings account and have 3-5X the amount of money I would ever see paid back to me.
Income tax is an entirely different matter and one we are not discussing here. I specifically mentioned medicare and social security. Again, I should be able to opt out of those particular programs, but we canât because they are the worldâs largest ponzi schemes and they are bankrupt.
Yet, people want to give government more money and power over their money which is absolute idiocy.
Exactly. Thatâs why costs âshouldnâtâ ideally have any bearing on what are to be considered fundamental, ânaturalâ, âGod givenâ human rights, except that we often have to take costs into consideration
If the argument is about cost then that argument will not last.
If the argument is about which rights are more fundamental, natural, God given, etc⊠then the arguments will be messy, but I would tend to agree more with the conservatives. Itâs only a tendency because it depends on whatâs specifically said
Itâs like that old thing about everyone being equal, but some people are more equal than others. From a purely logical perspective an equation means equal, means changing one side of the equation must match an equal change in the other side, otherwise itâs no longer equal, even if it once wasâŠ
Whatever are to be considered fundamental, ânaturalâ, âGod givenâ human rights ought to be able to change over the centuries
If health care is not to be yet considered a fundamental, ânaturalâ, âGod givenâ human right, I would still like to think that it could someday even if itâs centuries away
Itâs not hard to imagine a situation where refusing someone healthcare would be morally âwrongâ. In those cases one might say they had a ârightâ which had been violated.
And whether the laws, habits, customs of that particular setting reflect those moral rights and wrongs are another matter.
Can you guarantee youâd have had success if we were all speaking German?
Has the US government been more of an obstacle than Naziâs or communists would have been?
The helpfulness of a phrase like âThanks to the governmentâ is limited in scope usually, unless youâre in an environment where people actually argue it⊠You canât disprove it⊠ExceptâŠ
âThe governmentâ is not a real thing to be able to thank. Itâs a bunch of people, some of which do and some of which donât deserve thanks - but thatâs arguing his point a bit too literally
Heâs not a troll for anyone to be feeding. He gives bait, if you eat enough of it⊠you become the troll that he feedsâŠ
If there were no government, how would you have anything other than a cave or a hut, worrying about getting eaten by cannibals?
You could change the government to a government. People come together, make laws, put systems in place to enforce those laws. Has there ever been an advanced society that lacked some form of government?
Admittedly, I only heard a quotation of this but here is a Harvard study showing 45 million die w/o health insurance. You know where they have zero deaths because of lack of health insurance? Countries where they have single-payer.
And when a person has to wait to go to an emergency room for treatment, the ailment they suffer from is much worse than if they had insurance and could go to a doctor in the early onset of sickness. All this does is cost the system more. Wow, how efficient.
The Federal governments budget DOES NOT work like a personal.
And how many times have we been warned by ignorant people about the debt? And what happens? Nothing. In the early 90âs the debt was about 3 trillion. Now it is 10x as much and guess what? Nothing again. All that money is the total sum of the money spent into the economy by the federal government that hasnât been taxed back. Did that money just disappear?
And this is not true of the U.S.? Whose âhealthâ insurance costs go up more?