Biotech Values

[tinkershaw]

Do you think that everyone should have to pay taxes for public schools even though they might not use them?

Do you think that everyone should pay for a fire department, even though they might not use them?

Do you have to pay social security taxes and medicare taxes as in FICA even though you might not ever use them?

Do employers have to pay unemployment insurance taxes even though you may not ever need it?

Nope. No one does just because they are living and breathing. If you choose to own a home, then you pay a property tax. If you choose to work, then you pay SSI (up to a certain portion of your income).

But no one pays a tax simply because they are breathing.

It will be a healthcare program and they should call it a tax and administer a program. I guess it boils down to whether you think citizens of a country should have basic healthcare as part of the benefits of their citizenship, or whether you think it is everyman, woman and child for themselves.

Nope, not if it flies outside of the Constitution, without even arguing the merits of this proposition.

Describe for me, please, where in the Constitution it says that a right of citizenship is basic healthcare?

Our Constitution is made up of negative rights, WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT DO TO YOU. You turn it on its head when we have a right to ENTITLEMEMTS from the government.

Your remedy: Amend the Constitution.

Tinker