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Originally Posted by u-Bob
There's no such thing as "free education", "free housing" etc. It doesn't matter if the government gives it away for free, there will always be a costs involved. School buildings cost money to build, to maintain, to heat,... Teachers don't work for free. They too need to eat and feed their families. etc.
The difference between free market capitalism and socialism here is that under free market capitalism, you are free to buy the services you want and you are free to not buy the services you don't want. Under socialism, the government will use force to take away part of your earnings and use that to pay for those so called free services.
I live in one of those Western European countries with so called "free health care". When I go to the doctors, I pay him for his services and he gives me a piece of paper. I can then mail that piece of paper to some government licensed organization and they'll send me a refund for the amount I paid the doctor. Guess what I do with those little pieces of paper. I throw them in the trash. I refuse to ask the government to rob my fellow human beings in my name.
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You are missing the point completely so as I've said, once you feel that someone is giving you apartment just after finishing university (that you didn't pay)or when you go to doctor and no one is asking you how much you earn and do you have money to pay, maybe you will understand. Until then, you can continue to believe in some evil people taking other properties. Idea behind system is to balance differences. Humanity was basic principle and a little logic and empathy. There are many people not able to work or work so hard as others.
As Madalton said, I don't have a problem giving money from my salary if I know that it is spent to those who need it. I could be the one in years coming. You can't understand this principle if you never lived it because it look strange to selfish profit (market) ideology. And that's not any special money, taxes are not much higher. I think that maybe Scandinavian countries have biggest percent of taking from people, but at the other hand, there was recently published study that people living there are most happy compared to other countries worldwide.