david starling
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The goverment doesn't give handouts. The taxpayers does. The money doesn't come out from the democrat's pockets. What you are doing is forcing citizens to give away their money. That is compulsion. If people wanna give money away on their own accord to help others, they can use charities to hand out money. That is the model republicans promote. What republicans oppose is the goverment stealing money from citizens. You have no right to do that. The idea of taxation is that the tax payer recieves something in exchange (ex: you pay taxes to have a police force to protect you).
People responsible for children are the parents and their family. The state only steps-in when a child has no immediate family, and because he is under-age and has no adult that can support him, and becomes a ward to the state. But this should only be in case of emergency, when the child has no family (which is actually very rare).
We're all tax-payers if we're earning a good living. So, can a wealthy Democrat opt out of paying tax money for Trump's stupid Wall? Republicans generally favor taxation for war, but not for the Safety-net.
Here's an example of theory versus pragmatism: There was a Socialist (someone who doesn't believe in private enterprise with taxation of income--wants the Government to own and distribute EVERYTHING) who was living in an impoverished area with ongoing drug-related "drive-by" shootings. Innocent bystanders were being killed, and he said it MUST be stopped somehow. I took the Libertarian position that if the drugs were as legal as Alcohol and tobacco, the gangs would be out of business, and the drive-bys would stop. His Socialistic response was, "no", because then private enterprise would profit from the sales!