Fine. Take your family to the local combat medic instead of a doctor then.
Rather than making up objections so that you can disagree, try opening your mind to discuss possible common ground. I know it's outside your comfort zone, but that really is my intent of the thread - to find common ground.
So you are against universal health care, but for laws that incourage irresponsibility resulting in even higher health care costs to the rest of us?
I'm not for a law requiring that we don't wear seatbelts, silly. I am against any laws designed to protect an individual from himself. I equate it to all this bailout crap. People need to take responsibility for their own actions. *cue John's Holy outrage*
But this is exactly what conservo-libertarianism espouses for the most part.
Yup. See why I buck when you try to cram me into your little preconceived categories?
Those are the very people (the military-industrial-banking oligarchy) you are enabling with your conservo-libertarian "flat tax" "fair tax" philosophy.
I'm just working with reality.
Hardly. Reality as you seem to see it is not necessarily reality from a common sense stand point.
I'm agreeing with your own description. That's what I'm calling reality. The oligarchy is controlling the game for now, so I'm looking for some common ground within the confines of that game. Like you, I'd love to get rid of the oligarchy. Until then, we play the hand we're dealt.
Everybody here knows what I'd prefer ............. correction: everybody here has read what I prefer, and some just can't make it fit their preconceptions & so refuse to acknowledge it.
You want your version of conservo-libertarianism where the billionaire pays the same tax as a teacher. That is nothing more than the oligarchy system we have now with the capital gains tax law.
I rest my case.
John, you're so wrong I think I'll accuse you of lying. You're lying, John and you know it. The capital gains tax is not the same rate as regular income. You know this. Yes, I do want the billionaire to pay the same tax as a teacher. Currently the billionaire pays less, isn't that right?
It makes zero sense that those who benefit the most from our infrastructure shelter more of their income from taxation than the wage earning producer that made them rich.
I agree, which is why I quite clearly stated repeatedly that I would like to see all income taxed the same, regardless of the source.
Why do you support policy that coddles the wealthiest?
Why to you masterbate on public buses?
You went in the Air Force and got a government pay check and taxpayer funded Socialist benefits for 20 years.
You lie again, John. This is becoming a habit.
So now you get Socialized medicine,
You lie again, John. This is becoming a habit.
but nobody else should unless they got a taxpayer funded paycheck for 20 years?
No one should get employer-paid benefits unless they work for that employer and fulfill their responsibilities as an employee.
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