FJO
Gold Member
I'm not gonna join the collective just because the "village" told me to do so… Why not make your own success it's more gratifying and lasting. I have been self-employed for 20+ years and debt free for 20+ years. I don't think I need the collective to make a life for me.Why not make it an opt in? any type of insurance/socialized medicine should be an opt in, you know voluntary... otherwise it's legalized extortior.What and when is NEVER?See that's the problem, people that will never use it and never want to use it will be forced into it. That is why the concept of paying into a pool is so immoral.Well, who pays for the public libraries? Public roads? Public schools?
Public parks?
Obviously, taxes of some illiterates supports libraries. Taxes of some who don't drive support building and maintenance of roads. Taxes of some who don't have children pays for schools. Taxes of some who never venture outside pays for parks.
Healthcare is different only that - unlike the above examples - everybody needs it and that it is more expensive. If you want it and/or need it, you pay for it either out of your own pocket, on the spot, or through your taxes.
Money is fungible, so people will be paying for things they absolutely disagree with every fiber of their being. By the way any type of insurance/socialize medicine is not healthcare… LOL
Sure, a person in his/her twenties/thirties is reluctant to pay for something that they don't get right now, but if they are lucky to live as long as those whose health care they are so reluctant to contribute to, they will be beneficiary of the common decency they resist and declare immoral now,
Sure, make it an "opt in", but keep a record of it.
When the time comes, when you are old, be prepared to hear: Sorry, you opted out when you were young.
Life is a bitch, What goes around, comes around. You know, KARMA.
There's more to life than the collective, you know, like freedom and individuality - that makes life worth living.
You speak of karma, leaching and depending off the collective is bad karma most definitely.
I admire your resolve and success in life.
Heaven forbid that your obituary be blemished by something like "he was always generous to help the less fortunate".