I'm sure rich people would love it if the government did nothing to help the poor and the poor decided to revolt and brutally murder and rob from the rich.
Mafoo assumes that just because the rich don't benefit from one thing that the government provides (healthcare) that they don't benefit from other things the government provides (police power and a legal system that protects their property rights).
Old people don't benefit from schools, yet they still have to pay taxes that go towards education. People in the North don't benefit from federal money that is sent to the South, but sometimes that ends up happening. People in a certain city in a state pay taxes that go to pay for roads in other parts of that state.
It makes no sense to say that just because you receive no benefit directly from a service the government provides that you shouldn't have to pay for it. Not to mention that completely ignores the indirect benefits you receive from those things.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
