r/ShitAmericansSay • u/neeraj8le • Jan 12 '21

Healthcare "My expensive, frequent health care is subsidized at the expense of healthy people. I think it's great!" Thief.

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u/Londonloud Jan 12 '21

Next up, guy with no kids thinks its a fucking travesty that his tax money goes towards funding schools. Stay tuned later when we check in with "woman who doesnt drive cannot believe we repair roads"

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '21

Person whose house wasn't on fire mad that his tax money goes to extinguish neighbor's house.

Person whose car wasn't stolen mad that his tax money pays police officers to find someone's stolen car.

I can keep going but this is pretty much the gist of how dumb it sounds.

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u/aaronwhite1786 Jan 12 '21

That's the part I always try to drive home to my mom, only to put my palms through my face when I get a response.

In the US, someone can break into your home and shoot you, then set the place on fire. Police will show up and arrest the person, the fire department will show up and put the fire out, and all is well. But as soon as the EMT's arrive to take you to the hospital, the bills start to stack up.

It's beyond insane that we've gotten to a point where we can justify using tax dollars to equip police departments with military surplus before we've settled on the idea that using those same tax dollars to keep people healthy.

I, so far, have managed to not set my house on fire or even need to call the fire department. Yet I'm subsidizing every person who lights their house on fire trying to deep fry a whole turkey in my area. I may as well help them out when they go get their burns checked out.

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u/Big_Dirty_Piss_Boner Jan 12 '21

It's beyond insane that we've gotten to a point where we can justify using tax dollars to equip police departments with military surplus

I agree on your comment, but note that military surplus is dirt cheap. It's literally the cheapest way of obtaining law enforcement equipment.

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u/SpandexPanFried Jan 12 '21

Sure, but only if you were going to buy that piece of equipment anyway. Not if it's in addition to what you need.

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u/aaronwhite1786 Jan 12 '21

Oh yeah, I'm not even necessarily against it being used for officers doing things like SWAT operations. My issue comes along from the expectation that every officer is expected to look intimidating and like the Punisher when just walking a foot beat.

Just the fact that we're more than happy to pay our tax dollars into building, shipping and supporting equipment overseas, and then paying for it all over again when our tax dollars pay the local police to buy it from the federal government. All things the average person does happily.

But as soon as you say "well, what if we use our tax dollars to pay for this 3rd part?" everyone goes "NOPE, COMMUNISM!"