On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Hobby<hob...@newpaltz.edu> wrote:
> This is why I've quit talking with you about > health insurance. When pressed, your bottom > line seems to be "taxation equals theft". What I have written is that taxation (taking someone's money) limits a person's freedom. That is obviously true. However, I have never written that I think there should be no taxes. In fact, I think that there are indeed some cases where the ends justify the means -- that I condone taking away individual freedoms for the greater good. But I think these cases are far fewer than others seem to think. > Yes, I AM prepared to make you pay your share > to keep people from dying Really? Would you literally come to my house with a gun and force me to give you money, telling me that you know better who it should be spent on than I do? I know a lot more deserving people to give my money to than wealthy elderly Americans who did not want to save up for their own health care. Are you seriously going to tell me that your choice of who I should help with my own money is better than my choice? That you therefore have the right to take my money from the people who I would give it to, and instead give it to the people you think I should give it to? _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
