Azure - I meant, everyone pays the same amount of tax. (I realize this isn't practiced in any country as far as I know). You pay for the services offered to your community. The wealthy can afford good police and fire-fighting services, the lower class can get what they pay for.
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See, your problem is that you think because I support the free market, suddenly everything should become private. Health care is a basic necessity(right to live).....and I support some form of a public system, but also feel that anyone should have the right to 'pay' to get better treatment. As for education, it should be completely looked after by each state. None of this crap by the federal government always getting involved.
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Isn't that the definition of a free market? In the USA, you do realize health care is privatized and education for the most part is tier 2... right?
This is one reason I don't support the ideology that capitalism has run in the USA
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I wasn't aware that the arts/music/etc, etc industry wasn't able to support itself financially. I do support some kind of funding, at least to increase the incentive work in the industry,
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Again, against true capitalism, no? (peter?)
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In a perfect world, survival of the fittest would drive everyone to succeed. But, we don't live in a perfect world, so a democratic system, the way WE know it, needs some form of government oversight. But that doesn't mean the government should be getting involved in the economy to the point where the 'market' can't function without that oversight.
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whats your proposed balance?