Lots of odd analogies in here. Nontheless you and I have different viewpoints and that is fair. But I have to ask you this. Do you think that healthcare is a privilege or a right?
I think it's a privilege. We live in a fallen creation that groans for redemption, where the wages of sin is death. We'll have the poor with us always. There will always be suffering. We will all die. Nothing will stop that. None of us have the right, nor the ability, to escape that. You're seeking an unobtainable utopia.
Now, I make extremely good money. My wife and I, while making really good money, have lived a modvery modest lifestyle, so we have a life where we own our own home/property, vehicles, etc, completely out of debt. I could literally stop working and go into full time ministry for a LOT less $$$, but I don't because we live this modest lifestyle in a very charitable way.
I don't say that to get any honor, as I don't want it. I say that to assure you that we put our money where our ideals are. I don't feel that healthcare or equal in come is a right at all. I reaffirm that we live in a bad world where bad happens, but that doesn't stop us from trying to alleviate the hurt, harm, suffering and death as much as we humanly can.
And we do have differing viewpoints. You are admittedly not passionate enough about the income gap to find some level at which you can personally and locally create equity with others, but you are passionate enough to steal from the innocent in order to make yourself feel better about the world. You'd use the government the way a common criminal uses a gun in a dark alley. You'd use the government to take money from others by force and threat.
You're not willing to give until it hurts to create equity, but you'll use the catch phrases to shake everyone else down.
I won't even tell you how much taxes I paid last year. Tens and tens of 1000s of dollars that the gov't took before I even saw it. That's 10s and 10s of 1000s of dollars that we couldn't volunteer to help others, but was used for the military complex, welfare programs to literally breed generational poverty with little or no responsibility tied to the handouts. And that was just Feds. The state got theirs. The county. The city.
The federal tax money has a % used on what are probably good intentioned programs, but how much money gets syphoned into black programs? How much gets "lost" every year? How much gets misdirected as crony capitalism?
The gov't is the system that is creating the wealth gap--forcibly taking money from us through taxes and spreading it among the elite. Yet you want to argue for giving the government more responsibility, more power, and more access to our money in the name of income equality.
And to top it off, your logic for all this is, "We live in a crime-ridden neighborhood where the criminals are already mugging you every day in the alleys, why not just agree to get more forcibly mugged more often?" "They're raping you already, a gang rape sounds even better, huh?"
Yah. We see things differently.
You go show what you're willing to do with your income. You go prove your dedication and then come back for a chat.
