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Only unemployed alcoholics can't afford private health care! They need to get off their asses and start a multimillion dollar corporation from scratch so they can go to the doctor once a year.

Or wiretaps and freeedom, AMIRITE?

Debo,



I don't mind paying taxes. What I do mind is how those taxes are spent. Providing money for people who are careless and just plain stupid with their life choices is not my idea of a good investment. How long do you keep throwing other peoples money at a bad investment?

Nearly every tax you "don't mind paying" benefits someone you don't approve of in some way. Shut the **** up about your god damn taxes.

Buuuuurn. McCarthy wannabe.

We've been occupying Iraq, what, six years now?

You might see a relationship between taxes and freedom, specifically that they are inversely proportional to each other, but only if you were a complete fucking idiot who has no idea of the value of things beyond their material worth in imagined currency, because such a person would apparently be completely unable to perform axiology or ethical appraisal beyond the act of capitulating with exchange rates, those rates of which are dictated to him by banks and government institutions; ironic, that such a focus on numerical and monetary value, meant to enable your freedom, would enslave you more than any raise in taxes.

Materialistic, shortsighted cunt.

Those are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

I have two points to make:

1. Your tax dollars go towards supporting the penal system, which is taking care of people who have made bad life choices (you know, like rape and murder, not just a McDonald's cheeseburger) and are suffering from the consequences of those choices.

2. Your tax dollars are already paying for the people who do not currently have health insurance because of (a) "bad life choices" and (b) pre-existing conditions that have nothing to do with bad choices. They use the emergency room and then they stiff the bill and the government funded hospital has to eat the bill, and that cost gets passed on to the tax payers.

Grow up, Varus. You sound like a whiney child.

I'd stop eating escargo. They're over rated. And French.

Crap, I just realized I'd have to reopen the whole "Iraq is not a threat to the US" argument again, which I really don't feel like doing.

Let's just state that you'd rather bankroll the poor downtrodden populace of some backwater middle-eastern country than to help your own people.