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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Baraka, perhaps you get my point but Roach certainly does not. What is the role of government? Over and over conservatives who share my point of view state our answer to the question. It is not the role of government to spend money taken from one group of people to make the lives of another group of people better. It is the role of government to provide among other things a common or national defense. I understand people disagreeing on the answer to the core question presented, but the injection of the implied morality is a problem and the root of uncivil exchanges. Government is not the best or most efficient means to help improve the lives of others. Raising taxes to accomplish that goal in Germany or any where else is the wrong approach.
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This is why I'm not a conservative. The role of governments is to serve their constituents. You might think it's wrong to use tax dollars for social spending (and will even go as far as to simply call it coercion and/or theft on one hand and charity on the other), but I don't. I think it's up to the people to decide what the role of government is. At least, that's the way it should be in free and liberal nations.
That taken under consideration, what Germany is doing can only be deemed wrong if the voters deem it so. If that is the case, then the next election will make things right again.
That's how democracies work.