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>Food, shelter and health care are basic human needs and rights. Even if so, it's not your right to take these by force. So if someone has to pay for that via
by notch656a 4y ago
>Food, shelter and health care are basic human needs and rights.
Even if so, it's not your right to take these by force. So if someone has to pay for that via taxes, etc then you are infringing on the rights of others in extracting that value. I would argue the government does have the obligation to not infringe on those rights, as they currently do in onerous regulation that makes these things unaffordable (well crappy food is pretty affordable by world standards). Obviously health care regulations and licensing, medicare, medicaid, medi-Cal, are some of the biggest offenders in destroying our rights.
- yieldcrv 4y agoWhat's your standard on rights? The constitution has the 16th amendment in it which means any tax when called income tax is okay, and the original constitution's articles allows for excise taxes. So this is an area you have to remain vigilant on to prevent the political will from gaining consensus if it matters to you. Centrists are playing this role swimmingly, preventing any party from gaining any useful power, while the rest of the country actually believes the "wave" of their color is actually going to happen for like almost a decade now. 50-50 Senate since forever tells you all you need to know! No party is going to overcome the filibuster to pass anything.