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Originally Posted by Telluride
Maybe we can find a compromise? Those who are too poor to pay for their own health care can sign up for a government program available ONLY to them and is funded ONLY by the tax dollars of those who sign up for the program. The poor can get their cheaper medical care without the risk of others having to pay for it against their will.
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We should extend this kind of nonsensical thinking to other things too. You should refrain from driving, calling the police or fire department, or drinking tap water anywhere where you haven't paid taxes. And I don't even want to get started on higher education, with the exception of saying that employers shouldn't be allowed to hire people whose educations were subsidized by other employers (i.e. public university tuition subsidies).
In fact, the government should start a database listing every publicly funded thing in America, cross referenced with whose taxes went to pay for that thing. That way we can be sure that we're only using things that we pay for.