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Re: Why do people in USA fear socialism so much?
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SgtSpike
on 08/09/2011, 22:11:18 UTC
And what do you mean by "any known version of socialism"?  What does a known version of socialism look like, in your opinion?  Because to me, it looks like programs to give people money who don't work hard enough to provide for themselves.

Damn those people with debilitating diseases!  They just need to drag their lazy asses off the couch and get to work to pay for their hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of medical treatment.

No wait... they should have planned better and not gotten sick in the first place!


 Roll Eyes
Fair point, but it still shouldn't be forced.  If you have a much lower tax rate from not having entitlement programs, then you enable people to have more free money to donate to charities that would help some people.  Ideally, if a person did have a debilitating disease, then family members and/or charities would decide whether it is worth spending money on keeping them alive.  Sounds harsh, but keep reading...

This gets into another question though, which is, what is the value of a random person's life?  $5?  $500?  $500,000?  $5M?  At what point do you say, enough is enough, and give up on throwing money at trying to save a person's life?  And I'm talking about any general public fund's money, not an individual's money which they can spend at will on whatever they like.  You can't say that a life is priceless, else we'd all be so poor spending money on keeping people alive that we'd live in shacks and eat grub for every meal.