You have a choice of whether or not to buy insurance. The government's tax is forced. If I don't buy insurance and I never have, the IRS didn't confiscate anything.
I don't hate the poor, but I do have a great deal of contempt for most of them. I grew up very, VERY poor. That was back before the government made it comfortable. Back when there was no such thing as food stamps or HUD housing. When being poor was really painful. If being poor had been as comfortable then as it is today, my Dad would never have bothered to get a job. I would never have found poverty to be so painful I went to law school. My son would now be third generation welfare instead of a business executive.
I don't hate the poor, but I have no sympathy for them.
I don't hate the poor, but I do have a great deal of contempt for most of them. I grew up very, VERY poor. That was back before the government made it comfortable. Back when there was no such thing as food stamps or HUD housing. When being poor was really painful. If being poor had been as comfortable then as it is today, my Dad would never have bothered to get a job. I would never have found poverty to be so painful I went to law school. My son would now be third generation welfare instead of a business executive.
I don't hate the poor, but I have no sympathy for them.