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Originally Posted by MaDalton
you're avoiding the point - read this place, all the threads where people say that foodstamps, unemployement benefits, bail outs etc. never should have happened. or that no one deserves health care who can not afford it. many people would agree to kill all that if they could. and they for sure would not pay voluntarily instead.
if you have no government that takes care of this and let everything run buckwild, you end up in african dictatorships.
sorry, but i dont want to live like that
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Of course there's bad people out there and that's one of the reason I don't want the government to tell me what i can or cannot buy. That's one of the reason why I don't want the government to tell me how to run my business. Because government officials are also humans. Government officials also make mistakes and some of them also have bad intentions. When a local baker time after time makes a mistake and sells bread that tastes like shit, I can choose not to buy their and his mistakes won't affect me. When some unelected government bureaucrat makes a mistake his actions affect millions of people.
You mentioned bailouts. Do you think it's fair or productive that people who run their business in inefficient manner get rewarded by a government that transfers the costs of those mistakes onto the public?