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It is very likely if you are rich, you are probably utilizing more of the roads, bridges and sewers with more and larger vehicles and houses with multiple bathrooms than a poorer person. You are most likely spewing out more pollution from your cars, planes and boats. Pay your fair share into the country that allowed you to attain and keep your wealth.
Of course, it could just be that the wealthier people actually keep the emissions systems on their cars intact...
So...what's wrong with requiring people to pay their way in life?
I missed the part of the Constitution that said the government was responsible for redistributing my property to another...
Oh you must have missed the memo..the government is supposed to take care of all of us. We're entitled ya know. And we shouldn't have to pay for it either.
Don't fight for lower drug prices or doctor fees..fight for more "help" from the government instead.
If y'all knew how most people abuse the medicaid system (including demanding prescriptions for over-the-counter medicines so they can use their 3 dollars to buy cigs instead; showing up in the ED instead of their designated doctor's office b/c they 'don't want to wait 2 hours,' etc), you wouldn't have too much trouble with this.
I while waiting in the lobby of an emergency room (for a family member), another person sitting next to me (who apparently had little or no income) was waiting to be treated. He told me that he comes their sometimes and complains that he's hungry and the emergency room doctor's get him a meal. They don't do it for free, they take his access information and it gets billed to the state as an emergency room visit.
I don't know how often that happens but, the money that gets wasted like that could buy a lot more food for the poor than one hospital meal in an emergency room.
You need to go live on a mountaintop in Tibet. There is no place else that will suit you...
And for all you Jeffersonian Patriots out there... Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, &c., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.
-- Thomas Jefferson on taxing the rich [Letter to Kosciusko, 1811]
You left out the beginning of that quote in an attempt to discredit Jeffersonians. He was speaking of taxation regarding EXCISE taxes, not taxes upon ones income. Excise taxation is completely Constitutional and based upon use of products. The rich or poor can choose whether or not to spend money on luxury items...you cannot choose whether or not to work (unless you wish for someone else to pay your way in life).
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"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied... Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings." --Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
Wow, I wish I had a $25 voucher so I didn't have to pay for all my own meds.
Why don't you just count your blessings that you aren't so poor as to be eligible for a voucher? People need to spend more time feeling thankful, rather than wishing.
Wealth? I am far from wealthy. If you fail to see what's wrong with government-sanctioned theft so the "needy" have a safety net there's no getting through to you.
Who is to decide what is a fair share? Who is to decide who has to much and who needs more?
I will not "get used to" theft of my property, be it from my government or a common criminal.
"I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
And I thought it's better and more blessed to give than to receive. I guess that's just a myth of some kind.
And I thought it's better and more blessed to give than to receive. I guess that's just a myth of some kind.
I'm happy to give to those in need...and I do. I resent the government-sanctioned theft of the product of my labor.
I'm baffled at how one fails to see the difference between CHOOSING to help those in need and being forced to give to bureaucrats.
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