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Arandur
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The best service money can buy will always be available to the people with the money to buy it. That won’t change. In your attempt to “stick it to the man,” you’ll just stick it to the middle class and the poor. Vengeance will not benefit you. Dragging people down to the lowest common denominator is never a good policy. “If I can’t have it, no one can!” What a whiney-baby approach to politics.
Bull. The Republicans were the main ones calling for reform in those areas. Several times. Look to Dodd and Barney Frank for policies perpetuated in their committees and which began much earlier than the 2000s, when mortgage lending was being subsidized, Fannie May and Freddie Mac were getting out of control, various groups (ACO-ough* cough) were pushing so hard to open up lending to people who shouldn’t have been buying homes, etc. Your guys share in the blame–by my estimation, as the greater root of the problem. Very selective memores do not serve a person well
Also, the current healthcare situation, those “evil insurance companies,” were basically created by government mandates in the 70’s. Very selective memores do not serve a person well.
My aren’t we judgmental. Accuse of the vice of greed while practicing the vice of malice. Nice.
I’m in a similar camp to Royal. I’d rather give my money to charities I support, that perform more efficiently and with far greater love and discretion than the government. That is why I endeavor to use tax credits like those in my two most recent home states (CO and MO) to give so much money to Catholic child care services and crisis pregnancy centers that I don’t pay a dime in state income taxes. While I do believe that some tax is necessary, I believe that we are overtaxed and the government does many inappopropriate things very inefficiently.
So I judge that it is far more responsible stewardship of the wealth God has blessed me with to devote it to more worthy causes.
You speak of charity. Relying on government to provide “charity” is an abdication of charity. Charity is a private responsibility. Foisting that responsibility on government is not the answer. Jesus never said Caesar was supposed to care for the sick and the poor. WE are.
And so I give money to private, Catholic educational institutions–ones that don’t indoctrinate children with a-moral and anti-life messages in an environment of religious persecution while providing substandard education. I would rather not a penny of my money go to public schools, but I unfortunately have been deprived of that option.
As for health care, I have spoken already about giving money to child care and crisis pregnancy institutions. Did you know that insurance is also paying money into a system that other people can use? It’s like privatized socialism! Except that since it’s privatized, people can make choices in their purchase and competition makes the system more efficient, so it is less offensive to freedom, ultimately more productive, and leaves open individual moral choice and selection.
As for “other services,” I believe private charities do a much better job tending to the poor. And since I don’t abdicate my responsibility for these and other charitable efforts, I am conscious of the need to steward my time and talents in those services as well, rather than throwing money at a vast bureaucracy and letting them do the work dispassionately, apart from God and the law of love but rather under secular laws of men.
Just as some people object to paying taxes because a significant portion pays for our military, I reserve the right to object to paying taxes for other areas of government services that I believe are improper or poorly executed. Why do you have a problem with that? Why do you call it “seeking wealth” as if it’s a matter of greed?
