Conservatives have more self-control

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'm generally conservative and favor a small government, but I'm good with single-payer, maily because I think offering health care to all is simply the humane thing to do. I'm willing to pay more taxes for it, myself.

It's quite bizarre to me how unwilling people are to see a tax increase for something that can benefit so many people, probably including themselves. Especially with the logic that they "don't want to pay for other people's insurance." Do they even know what insurance is or how it works? Of course rhen one could argue, "Well I choose to purchase insurance. I don't want the government to force me to pay for others'." But you already pay taxes for many things that you don't use. The federal highway that stretches across North Dakota is of little use to me as a New Yorker but I'm still paying for it. The difference between a federal highway in North Dakota and health insurance is that it's not possible for a life-altaring emergency to force you to rely on a federal highway in North Dakota. I've seen a couple of conservatives on Twitter with a few thousand followers who have crusaded against "socialist health care" and then the next month put up a GoFundMe because they got into a car crash and declared bankruptcy after receiving their medical bills. Everybody is going to struggle with these costs at one point in their life. Whether it's a car accident, cancer etc. My father has very good insurance yet my transplant still costed quite a bit, at least relative to how much my family makes. I personally pay just over $100 out of pocket for my anti rejection meds every month*. A little tough on an intern's "salary."

That's right. Our taxes pay for others every day, be it good roads, firefighting outfits, or general defense.

There's a dipshit I interact with somtimes on another forum who for the last seven years -- literally -- has been singing the plaint of "why you want property taxes?"

Well, mabye it's because you live out in the middle of nowhere and saving you from yourself is more expensive, y'know.

Taxes are a form of insurance. We pay taxes to fund police departments, and that reduces our risk (ideally!) of having crime brought to our doorstep. We pay taxes to fund the Roads & Services crews, because shitty roads kill people. And do the paying public a favor, don't visit emergency rooms, and go easy on asking for donations, because quite frankly those donations don't cover the need nearly at all as it is and your gofundme campaigmnis sucking dollars out of that trough too.

I'll pay a little more each year on taxes, I'm good. If you've ever helped a cancer patient out in a jam, you know exactly how shitty it is. Arguing that this should be voluntary charity is nice and well ... but wait until your ass is on the line. You'd better hope people are better than they seem.