As if I haven’t seen your reductio ad absurdum from leftists before... rookie.
Leftists justify WEALTH TRANSFER by citing those things that are actually legitimate GENERAL WELFARE items.
Law enforcement and the judicial system are specified in our founding documents as legitimate government powers.
Healthcare is not.
Let me use YOUR line of reasoning and ask if you should be required to pay for my food, housing, transportation, and perhaps even recreational drugs?
How far do you want to take it?
(Oh, by the way, I welcome you to FR, liberallarry. I miss sparring with the leftists on Yahoo. But... you’ll have to hone your arguments better, I’ve had plenty of practice refuting libs.)
What's legitimate is determined by those who vote, not by you alone...or your interpretation of the documents of the Founders.
The Founders did not speak unanimously about such universal questions and were wise enough to realize that whatever they thought and said was hardly the last word. They built great flexibility into our Constitution.
I don't like the whole idea of God-given or universal "rights". We the people decide on what kind of society we want and make laws accordingly. So when I hear people talk about the "right" to health care I gag. But I do think that some form of universal health care is in all our interests (we've already recognized that universal innoculation against communicable disease is a good thing). The limit is affordability.
(Oh, by the way, I welcome you to FR, liberallarry. I miss sparring with the leftists on Yahoo. But... you’ll have to hone your arguments better, I’ve had plenty of practice refuting libs.)
Thank you. I share your sentiments. Preaching to the choir is boring, and rarely edifying. By the way, I've been here a rather long time.