ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

[Eric the Green]

(01-18-2017, 09:26 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Indeed.  Those of true character will donate to charity themselves, rather than trying to force others to do it through taxes at the point of a gun.  And they won't brag about it.

Your libertarian economics ideology has ruined America, and will go on ruining America until it dies, and sooner rather than later. I would brag to the hilt if we could have a country which recognized that it's a great priviledge to pay a little more in taxes so that a young child can get medical treatment who would otherwise die. Those of true character will not scapegoat poor people for political gain by pandering to prejudice.

And I don't see that you have any problem with having guns pointed at people.

And the use of the word "charity" is a neat trick too. Without the government "forcing" people to contribute to the things people need for life, the big business moguls simply make them unavailable to average people, unless they are fortunate or greedy and skilled enough to become rich themselves.

Instead of complaining, deceiving and denying help to people, the rich should be happy to support taxes on themselves. Taxes are just what they would be paying anyway to the poor and the needy, if they were doing what it is their duty (and what is in their real self-interest) to do. What difference does it make, then?

The difference is, the rich do not do what is in their own interest. They deceive the middle class and poor into voting for their political henchmen by using false "dependency vs. freedom" slogans to stir up resentment against their fellows, especially other ethnic groups or genders; instead of against themselves where it needs to strike. Divide, deceive and conquer. Trump is their man; he does this the best; the TV-star successor to Reagan who did it the best in the 80s.

Republicans and their wealthy owners should pay and shut up.