Enter “Why should I have to pay for someone else’s kid!!!”
Because you live in a society, dipshit. Plus, it’s cheaper to feed him breakfast and cover his daycare than it is to incarcerate him in 20 years.
“Why should I pay for their burning down house?! Privatise the fire department!”
At some points in history, fire departments were privatized. It wasn’t a great plan. Fire tends to spread.
“pay for someone else’s kid” is code for “help someone I don’t think deserves to be helped”.
Conservatives are all about the hierarchy. In their minds it is an immoral act to give someone a benefit that doesn’t deserve it. To do so risks that person getting to be in the wrong place in the hierarchy. And if someone is in the wrong place in the hierarchy, that’s going to cause the bad kind of anarchy.
“Why should I have to pay for someone else’s kid?”
“Why should I have to pay for a park I’m not going to visit?”
“Why should I have to pay for a road I may never drive on?”
“The American Military Complex is very responsible with my money and keeps me safe from real threats.”
I pay for insurance and then pay copay.
And then I pay a school tax and pay for school lunch and fees.
And my health insurance doesnt cover teeth so I have that as separate.
And I pay a tax on my food and then if it’s a specific type of food, I pay a tax on that.
I also pay taxes and yet my friends pay $2800 to put their kids in a day care.
Swede here, I have said it before, and I’ll say it again:
The Social Democratic is the best ideology humanity has found.
It combines the safety nets of government run services with the powerful incentive of a free market.
Sure, not all sectors are included in the free market, essential services like public transport, power, water, sewage, hospitals, schools, and similar stuff that you need to live and participate in society should be run by the government, and not just by decree, but actually running them.
Anything more should be on a (regulated) free market.
Progressive tax brackets should be kept st a high level, with a public highscore list with a awards like fancy dinners, medals, and other symbols of status for paying a lot of tax, creating more incentives to pay tax.
That to me sounds like a good society
