Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more! Or close the wall up with our English dead!
(Hint: if your food costs had ballooned like medical costs have over the last 4 decades, you'd probably be curious as to what the problem was, wouldn't you?)
This is an appalling attitude. Civilised societies take care of their sick.
hospitals,
Health care is a privately, individually administered life expense. Pay it yourself, or should we go ahead and put food and water on this list too?(Hint: if your food costs had ballooned like medical costs have over the last 4 decades, you'd probably be curious as to what the problem was, wouldn't you?)
This is an appalling attitude. Civilised societies take care of their sick.
It's only been considered an appalling attitude over the last few decades. Giving charity to those who can't afford their needs is great; considering every basic need of every individual an entitlement, and stealing directly from the income of others to pay for those needs is called socialism. It's immoral, inefficient, and unsustainable.
And even if none of that were true, an income tax is still a horrible way to pay for it.
Again: if food prices had gone up like medical costs, I would hope the societal response wouldn't simply be to ignore the cause and to start advocating for public restaurants.
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So the schools and police will be better funded in wealthy areas where they already have low crime rates and good schools? Nice.
Yes. Rich people can afford to pay more for nicer things; that's life. Even if payment for those things was switched to income taxes, it wouldn't end the disparity (due to private schools and private security forces,) so demanding income redistribution to address the inequity seems a little disingenuous.
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Because corporations are the only ones who need defending, right?
I'm not even sure what you're saying here.
Why would you be against corporations, which are granted special privileges by government that individuals don't have access to, paying for military expenditures (as primarily happens in the U.S.?)
Are you saying corporations shouldn't have to bear the burden, or that individuals should also pay out of their personal income, just because?
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Nothing close to a solid argument to justify an income tax yet.
Do you really mean income tax, or is your problem really with any tax where the rich pay progressively more than the poor?
I have a problem with all taxes.
But if taxes are going to exist, there are far better options than income taxes, regardless of whether regressive or progressive. One would think the intrusiveness alone should cause people to demand a change; but I suppose once people become use to a status quo, it will be defended, regardless of the wrongness of it.