Originally posted by FMF
May i ask you a question? Let's say the government takes some of its tax revenue and spends it on systematically promoting community based rehabilitation for disabled people by way of occupational/physical therapy facilities, training, small business grants etc., would you say, by using taxes [that you have paid] to do this, the government is using the force of ...[text shortened]... o do and not allowing you to listen to your heart or to do the right thing by those around you?
The government takes and spends it the way it wants not the way I want, I do
not get credit for what it does or does not do. The government also picks those
people it wants to help and don't help too, it picks businesses it wants to help
and don't help, it picks and chooses to do a great deal of things, none of which
I will get a say in one way or another if those people in power are only looking
out for their own best interest. Can good come of the government spending,
yes sure, but so can evil.
If I have or can keep more of what I earn than I can choose what to do with
it, if I'm forced by robbers or the rule of law to give up what I earn I can only
do what I want to with whatever wasn't taken away from me without being
able to say no to.
I want to add that those that push socialism are not more righteous than
anyone else, they are lazy, they are asking for things to be done by others
in their name as if that means they are more righteous. What they should
be doing is askiing themselves and others to do for themselves those things
that are needed, NOT the govenment.
Kelly