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[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

I prefer we help each other without being put under the gun or death threats.

Correct. I just said the same thing in the 'Medicare for All' thread:

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

I've already suggested that the best way to pay for both wars and public assistance programs is via a voluntary contribution program. It lets people put their money where their mouths are. If there's not enough collective interest to adequately fund neither wars nor public assistance programs, then we don't have them.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by pknopp

I am involved somewhat with the Libertarians locally.......all six of them......on occasion we will go have dinner and discuss the weather or the current political climate.

I was pleasantly surprised when another joined me in the belief that it is not wrong to help others as a society.

Of course it's not wrong as long as it's done voluntarily, and NOT compulsory (coerced and forced) via threat of asset seizure and imprisonment by the government.

[ohhwanderlust]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

I prefer we help each other without being put under the gun or death threats.

Name a country where people in need are successfully helped without any tax-funded programs.

It just doesn't happen.

People will just step over the dead bodies in the street and carry on with their day.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

I prefer we help each other without being put under the gun or death threats.

Great. I prefer that also but it's not a reality.

[Dane_in_LA]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

So threatening other people with death so that they would pay for your compassion is moral?

They can pay their membership fees to uphold society or go live among the savages. And those aren't my words, they're Benjamin Franklin's.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by Dane_in_LA

They can pay their membership fees to uphold society or go live among the savages.

As long as everyone pays those same membership fees. Parents pay the membership fees for their children, as they're their parents' responsibility. Otherwise, non-payers can do the same: go live among the savages.

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by ohhwanderlust

Name a country where people in need are successfully helped without any tax-funded programs.

It just doesn't happen.

People will just step over the dead bodies in the street and carry on with their day.

All the countries that Bill Gates spends his charity money in.

Just FYI, the world donates enough to feed the entire Africa.

Next question please.

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

As long as everyone pays those same membership fees. Parents pay the membership fees for their children, as they're their parents' responsibility. Otherwise, non-payers can do the same: go live among the savages.

Great answer!

[PCALMike]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

Great answer!

This is from a guy who supports Donald Trump's tax plan. What did it do? The GOP openly bragged that it causes more people to pay zero federal taxes. That's by design.

[BobNJ1960]

Originally Posted by stburr91

This is always what democrats do, lie about what is being cut.

Correct. Must be pathological liars.