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Board Politics & Society
Re: GOP Tea Party Debate: Audience Cheers, Says Society Should Let Uninsured Die
by
FredericBastiat
on 16/09/2011, 21:36:09 UTC
If you agree with the need for the service, then you agree it must be paid for.  The service is not for 1 person or for 1 group of people - its for everyone in society.  So everyone in society has to pay for it.  The mechanism for collecting that payment is called tax.  Stop please calling it "plunder" and "stealing" and "theft" - tax is the best way to provide the service. 

I need food or I will eventually starve...
I need air or I will eventually suffocate...
I need water or I will eventually dehydrate...
I need clothes in cold weather or I will eventually die of hyperthermia...
therefore...wait for it...

I must tax to get those things I need.

Yes? Lovely logic. Non sequitur. Straw Man argument. Moving on.