• Endymion_Mallorn
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    -4512 hours ago

    Charity is our choice. Taxes are the force of the government. Everything you want funded by others should be funded by charity. We shouldn’t be forced to pay for each other’s choices.

    • @PapaStevesy
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      9 hours ago

      Then why are my insurance premiums paying for other people’s illnesses? Why don’t I get to decide how and when my insurance pays out? It’s my insurance paid with my money. Also, who keeps building all these roads and bridges with my tax money? I shouldn’t be forced to pay for infrastructure I don’t use just because someone chose to live somewhere else!

      • Endymion_Mallorn
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        -129 hours ago

        Insurance is a protection racket made to benefit a small cadre. They just managed to sneak it in to law and make the government require it. And you’re correct, you shouldn’t be forced to pay for something you’ll never use.

        • @PapaStevesy
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          128 hours ago

          So your plan is to let poor sick people die, the same plan as the insurance companies, interesting. And it’s safe to assume you only use roads that you personally build and maintain, right?

    • @NocturnalMorning
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      1610 hours ago

      Nobody chooses to get cancer. But everybody benefits from a society that lifts others up instead of kicks them when they’re down. If you don’t believe in helping other people then you’re just a sad individual.

    • snooggums
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      12 hours ago

      Don’t use roads or sidewalks or parks or eat food or buy anything that has to follow safety regulations then.

      And never sue anyone ever. Courts are expensive!

      • @[email protected]
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        1811 hours ago

        The stuff the government does that he likes is the will of the people. The parts he is trained to think are bad are forced on him.

        • Endymion_Mallorn
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          -89 hours ago

          No, it’s all done by force if it’s paid for by taxes, whether I like it or not. It’s just whether I’d have chosen to contribute or paid a private business.

          • @NocturnalMorning
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            129 hours ago

            Paying a business to do everything is how we got mining towns that paid their workers in company money that can only be used at company stores.

    • Bilb!
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      811 hours ago

      This is an acceptable thing to believe if you’re a teenager or younger. Past that it’s just embarrassing.