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So, someone should be working to provide you with medicine, education and utilities and paid for that by... someone else?
by jojobas 3y ago
So, someone should be working to provide you with medicine, education and utilities and paid for that by... someone else?
- throwaway173738 3y agoAre you trying to argue that beneficiaries of tax-funded systems like roads, medicare, unemployment, etc don’t pay taxes? Because everyone in the US pays some kind of tax to fund something unless they’re not an adult yet. I’ve worked with several very competent people who were on unemployment at some point but who also paid into unemployment for most of their lives.
- jojobas 3y agoSure, everyone pays taxes. I'm pretty well set and I'm still not sure I'll ever pay enough in taxes to cover one of those famous US hospital bills. Then again, it should be matter of at least a majority agreement that things like that should be paid from taxes, and it's obvious that in the US the agreement is not there.
- kashunstva 3y ago> someone should be working to provide you with medicine, education… Are you seriously arguing against taxpayer-funded education? As broken as U.S. public education is, managed as it is by hyper-local, ideologically-motivated officials, withdrawing the opportunity to raise one’s lot in life through community-funded education would be pretty dystopian. Or perhaps you were referring to post-secondary education only?