Obama's Health Care Overhaul: Your Opinions

[Kobi]

Originally Posted by casey35

Well let see, we have people who dont work they dont want to work so us tax payer pay their bills. We have those who dont want to take their kids to the doctor they would just perfer to take them to the e r. We have those who are druggies that we pay for. You know what i am one who is tired of paying for those who cant get off their ass and work.

I think I understand where Casey is coming from. Our country was founded on self reliance and it served us well for a long time.

Unfortunately our society has become much more complex over time and general taxes, spread amongst all, have been paying for things we deemed are beneficial to most i.e. property taxes pay for school systems, so even those of us without kids have been footing the bill for those that do for a long time.

We tend to forget that we, as individuals, benefit in many ways from generalized taxes.