Starbucks Billionaire: You Can’t Have Healthcare Or College

[Mr Puggsly]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

contestgamer said:

Healthcare isnt a right. No other animal has healthcare and humans didnt have it for 99% of history. The law of nature is of every man for themselves.

By that logic, the US shouldn't have such things as Police, Firefighters or even an Army. Oh, and no rights either, as they're not part of the "law of nature"

Well the government is supposed to take care of its citizens and providing all the services you mentioned is a relatively small part of the overall budget. For example, I was surprised to read we only spend like a $100 billion on the police collectively (I would have guessed much more), I imagine fire services are less. The military budget is huge, but still only like 16% of the budget.

Providing healthcare is a different though, its something many prefer to buy privately for various reasons. More importantly the US government already spends a fortune on it. The government spends over a trillion just on healthcare.

So that's the flaw in your argument, you aren't considering we already spend significantly more on health and social services. While services like police, firefighters, and a kick ass military is a lot cheaper to provide.