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You're stupid. You think that personal savings accounts for things such as healthcare and retirement is worse than blind taxation?
Listen, extremes tend to fail. I don't want to see america become socialist any more than you. But I'm being realistic here; people love their government right now because it gives them free money. That's completely wrong, but there's nothing we can do. I think that a politically viable alternative, at least for the working age people (who sadly never vote) is to personalize the savings so the government can't touch it, and at least reduce corruption.
This is honestly, what I think the libertarian party will do if it ever gains a lot of power. (which I think it is... ever watch any of the kid-oriented media that isn't the daily show? South Park is libertarian, Adult Swim besides Futurama and Family guy are almost certainly libertarian) They can't just send the niggers out on their own, because niggers (and trailer trash and the spics, being equal opportunity here) don't save. Then these people get mad and vote for whoever gives them the most free money for making horrible decisions in life.
My brother in law's brother is 500,000 dollars in debt because he has a psychological disorder that makes him think he needs huge ass trucks. He has two of them, and he only makes like 15,000 dollars a yet. He struggles to make the car payments, and he's lost money many many times by trading in when the car's trade-in value didn't pay off the loan he took out to get it. Last year he managed to secure a credit card with a 3,000 dollar credit limit. What did he do? Bought plane tickets to new york and maxed it out. Apparently a credit card is free money. What's he going to do when his kid needs braces? That's right. "I need this to live, so logically someone else should pay for it." I wonder if the cc-companies will ever see a dime of that trip to new york...
Libertarianism can't win against scroungy poor-ass stupid slobs who spend their medical and dental budget on beer and twinkies and then expect someone else to pay for it. My idea is to keep them satisfied so they don't have to face the consequences of their actions, and therefore, don't vote against us.
This is government acting as a protector, not a provider, which is the basic tenat of libertarianism. I know you feel like people should feel the consequences of their actions, but often, those consequences ruin things for everyone else; it's what stupid people do best.