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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
I could probably find some reasonably accurate numbers to back this up but I think just by stating it I'll make my point.
Add up the cash donated to charities and not for profit organizations...
Sure there were antiquated notions... but forcing someone to work for the benefit of someone else without any compensation is and will always be, in my mind, slavery. As it is the very definition of slavery. You only earn money by working; that comes in many forms but that is how money is acquired. By forcing money from someone you are forcing them to work part of their time for someone else without any benefit; slavery.
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If your taxes go to help your neighbor's kid get educated, and one day they are the doctor you rely on, then you DID benefit - you were not a "slave" at all.
If your unemployment taxes go towards other people's unemployment you can feel like the victim, but when YOU lose YOUR job, then it all comes back around, doesn't it?
Healthcare should be a portion of your paycheck. You have to pay for it anyway, so why is this such a crazy idea? That way everyone pays into it, and everyone benefits from it.
The only people who do not like that idea, are the thieving (and unnecessary) for-profit insurance companies in the middle.
And, by the way, slavery, as defined by Webster, is actually "submission to a dominating influence". By that definition, you are already a slave - a slave to the corporations that control you, on every fucking level, right down to your healthcare.