BA> ST> You mentioned the 'right' to medical care.  You have a right to
BA> ST> the fire  department when your house catches on fire.

BA>Actually you don't.  Only if you pay taxes to support a local fire
BA>department. In some jurisdictions that have privatized their fire
BA>departments, those  departments don't respond to properties where the
BA>owner(s) have not paid the required membership fee (or whatever they
BA>call it, it amounts to a tax - but it is voluntary).

BA> ST>  You have the right to eat.

BA>As long as you can pay for your food.  If you can't pay there are
BA>charitable organizations that provide food for the poor, but nobody
BA>has a *right* to it.

BA>If you think you have a right to drinking water, try not paying your
BA>local utility (water) bill.

BA> ST>  You  have the right to enjoy your family.

BA>Assuming you have one.

BA> ST>  You have the right to medical care.

BA>As long as you can pay for it or get someone else to pay for it for
BA>you.

BA>Put quite simply:  no legitimate right places a debt or obligation on
BA>another.

That is called economic slavery.  The problem with most of these feel 
good debates on healthcare is that they use money to abstract the real 
act that is going on here.  If people had to give up their time and 
energy, instead of money, (at the risk of being jailed if they didn't) 
this argument would be very very different.


Jeff 

CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999 
Progressive taxation is economic slavery for those who succeed .....

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