And why is taxpayer money necessary for [federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell research]? That means those of us who oppose embryonic-stem-cell research - for ethical, moral, or religious reasons - must finance it. Why not leave all this to the private sector and private capital? That wouldn’t make me any happier from a moral standpoint. But at least I wouldn’t be paying for this research with my tax dollars.
You really ought to rethink your argument, cuz it necessarily leads to scary extremist conclusions such as:
- rejecting taxes that fund military aggression
- rejecting taxes that fund the arrest and imprisonment of drug users
- rejecting taxes that fund any type of commercial regulation beyond force and fraud
- rejecting taxes that fund imminent domain
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Pls. add rejecting taxes that fund any congresscritter's health benefits if they say health care is a privilege not a right.
Posted by: bartkid | March 12, 2009 02:48 PM
bartkid, I'd add that...but not if politician proclaimed health care a privilege and not a right. I don't think health care is a right, not in the sense of a fundamental right all humans have by virtue of their nature. I'd reject the taxes to fund their (and anyone else's) health care because I should not be forced to pay for the services other people want for themselves.
That coercion effectively makes me a slave to their consumer desires, one of the basic reasons I oppose the items on my list.
Posted by: Drizzten | March 12, 2009 07:04 PM