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In the case of your mother-in-law’s hip replacement, it is neither free nor morally acquired. The new hip wasn’t free; it was clearly paid for by somebody else, in this case the taxpayer. And it was not morally acquired, since it involved a breach of the Seventh Commandment and private property rights. The money to pay for her new hip came out of her neighbor’s pocket, the very party the Seventh Commandment was designed to protect. The money to pay for the hip was taken from her neighbor by a third party, an intermediary we customarily call the government. Third Party intervention, however, does not legitimize the violation of the Seventh Commandment nor the very private property rights protected by the Seventh Commandment. If a highwayman robs you at gun-point and tells you they are going to give all your money to the needy, it doesn’t make it right. It’s still a violation of that pesky Seventh Commandment. “ Hold your horses. Don't be messin with my medicare,
I am due for another ‘free’ electric wheelchair.
It not YOUR $$$. It's mine. I paid in.
It comes from the 'trust' fund.
“I am due for another ‘free’ electric wheelchair.”
You don’t get a free wheelchair from medicare. You pay 20% which ends up being more than it would cost if it were sold on the open market.
Case in point, my spouse’s (manual) wheelchair was “paid for by medicare 20 years ago. It was $1200, of which she paid $240. A wheel chair at Harbor Freight is less than $60, twenty years later. Somebody stole a lot of money, but it wasn’t my spouse...
