I don't even like seatbelt laws and helmet laws. Let people do what they want and let the chips fall where they may
I hold this libertarian mindset too....as long as nobody injured by not wearing them needs any medical care at taxpayer expense. As soon as I'm required to pay for someone else's easily prevented, ego-driven foolhardiness, I object.
I think that there should be a certain S-M-A-L-L (small!) tax that everyone pays for MINIMAL, BASIC healthcare for extremely poor people.
Wishful thinking. It will NEVER stay "S-M-A-L-L" as long as government employees get to run it. NEVER.
Just 40 or 50 years ago, there were free clinics for poor people. Doctors and nurses gave a few hours per month to help out at the free clinic. As recently as the 1950's and 1960's, doctors made house calls.
The private sector can, does and DID provide health care to poor people. But once the government got control of it -- first via Medicare in 1965, and then through mandated HMO's in 1970 -- it was only a matter of time until the free clinics went away and a house call was a never-happens event.
Get the government OUT of health care, and the free market will solve the problems.
smears his germs all over everything he touches ... can end up getting your niece sick
Germ Theory is a crock of shit, with ZERO proof to back it up.
Today, government controls almost ALL "health care" (if you can even call it that these days) and "medical research" (if you can call propganda "research"). This is the ONLY reason that alternative ideas are not funded and debated in society.
When government takes over, it is no longer a free society.
And it hurts EVERYONE.
We are a social race of beings, and we have a degree of interconnectedness that you can't get away from.
True, but Germ Theory is STILL a crock of shit.
So for the sake of PUBLIC HYGIENE
Wrong, because Germ Theory is a crock of shit.
But I think that tax, and that level of health coverage, should be extremely minimal
You are dreaming, not being realistic. The income tax started out with a maximum rate of 6%. Within a few years, the top rate was 77%, and in less than 20 years, it was over 90%.
Government does NOT stay small.
PERIOD.
That should be one of the BIG lessons of the past few years.
It's one of the only things I'm still somewhat socialist about
That's a problem that you should deal with.
Those types of ideas ... "we can just keep THIS little itty bit of socialism" ... is what is destroying America.
Socialism/communism is EVIL ... because it violates the basic principles of human rights, and destroys people's lives.
You can't be a little bit pregnant, and you can't have a little bit of socialism.
Yes…it always starts out with just 5% or whatever and then these incompetent or greedy fucks want more. Always. We have more homeless people with more free services than we had without free services. That should tell us something about human nature.
Somehow this got slid from seat belts and helmets to bums wiping their ass with their beard :p
I said I specifically resent paying for other people's ego-driven foolhardiness, not simply being broke or indigent and in need of healthcare. No one with a conscience and a moral compass thinks those people should just be cast adrift if they can't pay their own doctor bills FFS
I hold this libertarian mindset too....as long as nobody injured by not wearing them needs any medical care at taxpayer expense. As soon as I'm required to pay for someone else's easily prevented, ego-driven foolhardiness, I object.
Wishful thinking. It will NEVER stay "S-M-A-L-L" as long as government employees get to run it. NEVER.
Just 40 or 50 years ago, there were free clinics for poor people. Doctors and nurses gave a few hours per month to help out at the free clinic. As recently as the 1950's and 1960's, doctors made house calls.
The private sector can, does and DID provide health care to poor people. But once the government got control of it -- first via Medicare in 1965, and then through mandated HMO's in 1970 -- it was only a matter of time until the free clinics went away and a house call was a never-happens event.
Get the government OUT of health care, and the free market will solve the problems.
Germ Theory is a crock of shit, with ZERO proof to back it up.
Today, government controls almost ALL "health care" (if you can even call it that these days) and "medical research" (if you can call propganda "research"). This is the ONLY reason that alternative ideas are not funded and debated in society.
When government takes over, it is no longer a free society.
And it hurts EVERYONE.
True, but Germ Theory is STILL a crock of shit.
Wrong, because Germ Theory is a crock of shit.
You are dreaming, not being realistic. The income tax started out with a maximum rate of 6%. Within a few years, the top rate was 77%, and in less than 20 years, it was over 90%.
Government does NOT stay small.
PERIOD.
That should be one of the BIG lessons of the past few years.
That's a problem that you should deal with.
Those types of ideas ... "we can just keep THIS little itty bit of socialism" ... is what is destroying America.
Socialism/communism is EVIL ... because it violates the basic principles of human rights, and destroys people's lives.
You can't be a little bit pregnant, and you can't have a little bit of socialism.
Yes…it always starts out with just 5% or whatever and then these incompetent or greedy fucks want more. Always. We have more homeless people with more free services than we had without free services. That should tell us something about human nature.
Somehow this got slid from seat belts and helmets to bums wiping their ass with their beard :p
I said I specifically resent paying for other people's ego-driven foolhardiness, not simply being broke or indigent and in need of healthcare. No one with a conscience and a moral compass thinks those people should just be cast adrift if they can't pay their own doctor bills FFS