It would be easier to have a "right" to medical care if prescriptions weren't controlled by doctors who charge $120 for an office call where they spend all of 5 minutes with you.
It would be easier to have food if you could just go out and hunt at will or even fish at will, but you can't. You have to buy a license, you have to wait for the right season.
It would be easier to have and maintain shelter if the government didn't tax the shit out of property owners. Then they make laws, if you live in a flood zone you HAVE to purchase flood insurance. If you don't live in a flood zone you are NOT ALLOWED to purchase flood insurance. Then the city takes your property tax money and spends it on bullshit, the storm drains back up during a big rain and suddenly people have lost everything they own and have no insurance.
Some of us feel that since we pay out the ass for services that we should actually get those services we paid for. I pay property tax to support a school system that my daughter couldn't attend due to severe allergies that the principal made fun of. I paid for her schooling through my tax dollar and then had to pay a second time for schooling because she couldn't go inside the building I help fund.
The CEO's of all these bailout corporations didn't really do a whole lot to earn those millions per year that they took home, yet they got those millions, and now they have our tax dollar as well. Meanwhile they get to keep their homes, cars, private jets, vacation properties, clothes, jewels. I'm sure the everyday private citizen enjoys hocking their belongings to pay for food and gas, while the fat rich bastards don't even get prosecuted for their crimes.
Let me go out and steal 50 million dollars and let's see what happens.
$120 isn't that much, less than 15 hours at $8/hr.
Of course, after the government steals its portion of that person's income which amounts to $2,100/year (enough for 17 doctor visits) under the guise of securing their retirement and providing them with health care in the future they can't afford health care right now.
The problem isn't the corporate executives. If government would just choose one variable to fuck with the country would be a lot better off. The government could either fuck with minimum wage, and thus try to ensure that everyone can afford health care (which seems to me a lot more important that making sure everyone gets to retire), or they could not fuck with minimum wage, and not worry about how much any one is making and steal directly from the corporations instead of the people to provide all the idiotic services that liberals think they should provide.
Of course, the failure in both cases is that the end result is the same thing, a system under which the people are nothing more than minimally kept slaves for the government.
Which is also the failure of the current government.
OASDI - Involuntary Taxes - Slavery
Income Taxes - Involuntary Taxes - Slavery
Of course, technically taxing food would also make for an involuntary tax, but you can at least minimize it by not eating more than you actually need. Which would go a far way towards solving the obesity epidemic, and thus save everyone billions of dollars as food prices went down (less demand) and medical costs went down (less demand.)
But that'd be too logical, and too "regressive" never mind that the real regressive system is the current income tax scheme which effectively makes everyone in the United States a government slave/serf/involuntary servant.
