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There is no such thing as "free health care". Take a look at you're next paycheck and tell me how many government services you get for free. If you are the average 18-30 year old you probably use no government services, yet you pay more for those services if you are single than others with the same amount of income. So what exactly are you getting for free?
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Free, meaning you do not pay for health care but you are taxed so that everyone can have health care. It works well in Canada and I have ready studies that converting to this would save the US a lot of cash. I cannot find the site I was reading this on but when I do I will post it. Was interesting.
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The government does a horrible job of managing funds and setting up food/housing projects for the disadvantaged. The extra money that you will have (from not giving it to the government), you can distribute to charities, which you feel are competent, and do some good. This article isn't about "to hell with the poor, long live the wealthy!" -- it's about choice.
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Like I said, so people like me who are not cold hearted will have give more because the wealthy will not. There is a reason the wealthy are wealthy, they do not give away money unless they are forced. If it is not a tax charities will not get money from most of the wealthy. Forcing me to pay more to make sure our citizens that cannot or will not provide for themselves get food and shelter.
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I'd really like to see some numbers on this, because it seems incredibly untrue to me. When I worked at Gage Marketing, the owner gave several times more money to the Red Cross (after 9/11) than all other employee contributions combined. I can't imagine the poor giving a larger percentage of their liquid income to charity than those who can afford to do so. Stats please.
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Again I will have to get the numbers from a site I cannot find now, but let me clarify a bit. The lower and middle class give a larger % of their annual income to charity than do the wealthy.
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Hint: Wealthy kids do not go to public schools.
Public schools everywhere are more incompetent than private schools, and it shows. Tossing more money at public schools will not fix them, only taking a cue from private schools will.
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Not true. Some Wealthy go to private schools. A lot go to public along with upper middle class and the rest of us. Public schools need funding. Period. Private schools are great if you want to send your child to a religious school or something like that. Not all parents want that for their child. Public education should be an option and it should be a standard. A child should be able to go to a school in the Bronx and a school in Beverly Hills and get the same education with the same tools and same caliber teacher. Teachers need to be paid more and given the chance to educate at the best of their ability.