pretty highly irrelevant. in this situation, being a citizen is just a title that literally anyone can get. saying we shouldn't be forced to pay for someone elses food but we should be forced to pay for someone elses medicare is hypocritical. I'm just not jumping over the case of it because 2 different people made the arguments.
I just find it funny
i wouldn't go that far. the government is there to provide things that we as individuals cannot do as individuals like providing schools, roads, military protection etc. anything else is just the collective depiction of what the government should do, and even then our government isn't obligated to take care of us.
I don't know what the government in whatever country you reside in is for, however in the United States we have something called the constitution, it defines precisely what the government is responsible to do, which fundamentally is to maintain national defense and borders, ensure a fair playing field for interaction and maintain infrastructure. The government is in no way responsible to "take care of anyone". If you would like to see examples of governments that try to take care of everyone please refer to perhaps hugo chavez in venezuela, or communist russia, or socialist china,or the failed states of greece, spain, portugal etc etc (the list is precisely as long as the list of countries that have embraced or flirted with socialism) and you will quickly find that the result of trying to "take care" of everyone is to reduce the freedoms of everyone.
You sure?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article...rs_of_Congress
The Congress shall have power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
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Nope, you have the responsibility to take care of yourself and those you care about. If others aren't willing to put forth the effort to do the same, why should I have to pay for them?
The only role of government is to protect the rights of the citizens. The current system is nothing more than a group of people forcibly taking your income and deciding that they know how to use it better than you do.
Agreed. In fact, in the US we have Title 42 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sup_01_42.html (The Public Health and Welfare). Good luck fighting that one, if anyone thinks they can change the law.