This past week, our local newspaper posted a question on Facebook related to defunding Obamacare. On Saturday, they printed some of the responses. This one (unedited) got my attention: “I don’t use any government ‘services’ anyway. I found this wonderful thing I call self-responsibility. I highly suggest it.” How remarkable! Here is a person who does not drive on streets and highways paid for by tax dollars, will let his house burn to the ground rather than call the government-run fire department, and would not call the tax-paid police force if he were the victim of crime. Probably did not attend the “government schools,” either. Must be a very lonely and difficult life. Sarcasm aside, the reality is that surviving in any society without both helping others and depending upon others would be very difficult if not impossible. By living in a nation state, we enter into a social contract with our fellow citizens and share...
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