We liberals don't want something for nothing. I'm perfectly willing, always have been, to pay my share. In fact I'm quite certain that I've paid far more in than you have. I paid the maximum SS for 45 consecutive years, and the maximum Medicare for 40 years. I've paid every penny I owed in Federal, state and local taxes. I've never collected one cent in unemployment, food stamps, or income assistance. In return, I want my socialistic benefits.
I want government provided education, for all, K-12. I want decent roads. I want effective police and fire protection. I want my food, water, air and drugs to be safe.
I want retirement benefits and medical care.
And I want all my fellow citizens to have the same things. Rich, poor, black, white, decent folks and assholes - we all share the same country and we should all receive the same essential benefits.
Some of us will contribute more than others, and some of us will receive more than others. That's the luck of the draw, just like insurance.
You are in favor of insurance, aren't you? Car insurance, house insurance, Old Age and Survivors Insurance, Unemployment Insurance?
Non-essentials, a fancy house, car, airplane, beach house, vacations in France - those are non-essentials. If you can figure out how to earn enough to have those things, great. If you cannot, then make do with just the basics, but everyone should have the necessities of life, not just the more fortunate.
