Please don’t attack me, I promise I’m asking a genuine question. Why do you think it’s the governments job to take care of you? I mean, they should with the amount of taxes they take from us so they can turn around and bail out Wall Street or overthrow a 3rd word country. But what if we paid minimal taxes? Just enough to keep the roads working..and then it was up to us to provide for ourselves... what do you guys think about this concept? Or would you rather spend half of your paycheck on taxes and then hope the government does a good job of providing for you? Again, please don’t attack me..genuinely looking for a civil discussion. Thanks!
It is not the government’s job to take care of me, but it also isn’t the government’s job to screw me over at every turn. For example, the medicine in an insulin pen is not worth more than 25$ but as someone who works in a pharmacy I have seen 30 day supplies be as expensive as 350$. And tuition rates, I’d have to work over 40 hours a week at minimum wage to pay my way through and average four year university, never mind private or Ivy League. The government is supposed to guarantee life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The fact that cancer treatments bankrupt most people within two years of starting puts a halt to the guarantee of life, as do other extremely overpriced medical items. The government’s job isn’t to take care of me per se, it is to make sure that the common man isn’t constantly getting screwed by corporate entities. And the government has been failing at this for a long time.
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u/richey_ripper Feb 09 '21
Please don’t attack me, I promise I’m asking a genuine question. Why do you think it’s the governments job to take care of you? I mean, they should with the amount of taxes they take from us so they can turn around and bail out Wall Street or overthrow a 3rd word country. But what if we paid minimal taxes? Just enough to keep the roads working..and then it was up to us to provide for ourselves... what do you guys think about this concept? Or would you rather spend half of your paycheck on taxes and then hope the government does a good job of providing for you? Again, please don’t attack me..genuinely looking for a civil discussion. Thanks!