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We starting with a lot of people in the hole. Those people get lost in your America. "Too bad, so sad" doesn't inspire people to revolution.
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Keeping what you earn, not having government tell you what you will do with your own body, and forcing government to abide by the limits on their powers does inspire a revolution. Seeing thousands upon thousands of American families broken up because the Government wants to legislate their choice of medicines, having Americans murdered, attacking every right we have, inspire a revolution. Living on your own through your own merits is just what freedom is. If you don't want it, you're unwilling to accept the responsibility that goes with freedom as many Americans are.
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Radar, In practice the world you describe creates an even larger chasm between the few rich and majority poor.
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The opposite is true. When people get all the money they earn, their children have better educations, they have more money to start up businesses, which means more jobs, goods are made better and cheaper so even the most poor people benefit from what I'm proposing and they have a better chance to stop being poor.
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To me, the mechanics it suggests seem to spin backwards towards ignorance, poverty and isolation.
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See the response above. And don't make the mistake of comparing military non-interventionism and isolationism. They are entirely different. I suggest we have strong ties with other countries. We should sign non-aggression treaties, and trade freely, but we should never use our military to defend any nation that is not our own and we should always remain neutral in every situation.
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The trail of your extreeme values end at selfishness and greed at all costs.
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Wrong again. It's not selfish to keep what you earn and to spend it how you want. It's selfish to expect other people to pay for your irresponsibility at the point of a gun. Also the poor, elderly, and sick would get
MORE help than they do now under my plan.
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I believe we do need each other, that workings of daily life are bigger than my person, and there is value to the whole in providing assistance to others. (Its defining and deciding the assistance that is the issue, not the complete scraping of it.)
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Of course there's value in helping others, but not at the point of a gun. Charity comes from the heart. And instead of having glorified DMV workers who don't care about the poor keeping 85% of the money collected to help the poor and treating them badly, why not let us voluntarily give to the charities we want to support who only need 12%-17% of the money collected for overhead, actually care about people, and get more help to those in need?
Some people ignorantly believe that if you're against the government stealing money for forced charity, you're against charity or if you're against the government stealing money for education, you're against education. Perhaps they think if I don't expect the government to feed all of us, I'm against eating.
Private enterprise is more efficient, cheaper, and better than government 100% of the time.
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Its interesting that your entire position and mission rests on the ideal of educating, uplifting the masses you deride- those poor kids you feel so much contempt for you wish them dead.
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lol. Let me play a sad song on a violin...
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Whenever people want to steal from you in America they say, "It's for the children...". We've got to attack your rights for "the children". I say I want my children to be free, well-educated, and prosperous and what I'm proposing will give them that. It's very obvious that government funded education hasn't.
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Just as paved roads and firetrucks, I think the educational opportunities and health of other people's kids are my investment, and it baffles me that you cannot see the benefit in that.
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Yes, they are YOUR investment. You may invest in the education of anyone you choose. All I ask is that you don't put a gun to my head and make me pay for it. Why should someone without children be forced to pay for the education of those who CHOSE to have children? If they want to pay for it, I'd encourage them to pay to educate children. It's a very worthwhile charity. But the second you force someone to do it, it is morally wrong, and no matter how many sad pictures you paint of starving, sick, poorly educated children dying in the streets, it won't change that fact.