The act of taking/receiving something for which you did not work/earn/pay is called theft.
Only a thief or a complete idiot would not agree with this statement.
contraception is a wise investment. in the long run it will decrease government expenditures by way of reducing the costs associated with childbirth and child rearing that the government will have to spend if contraception isnt used. everyone benefits from reduced tax liability.
…make an argument against contraception that doesnt extend into other areas of governance then.
So far, you’ve tried to suggest failure of my original statement by applying it to the postal service, schools, police, courts, jails, etc., and I’ve patiently explained how and why each of those cases does
NOT apply to my statement.
In favor of continuity, I will now do the same with your latest post that I’ve documented above.
You’re young, so I can
somewhat understand why you've got a bit of an unrealistic, utopian view of the world.
Unfortunately, the way things work in real life is that there is a LARGE population of single mothers who receive something called SSI checks for each child they birth and rear. I had the misfortune of knowing a sampling of this demographic from my brief time working at a bank in a lower-class section of town. Most of these “women” pop out kids for the government money, and from hearing many of them talk, the majority of that money does
NOT go towards raising their children.
Now, this is where the flaw lays in your argument: so long as the U.S. Treasury prints and distributes those SSI checks for each kid, then making babies is a source of income for many of these dirt bags. Do you honestly believe people like this will practice birth control in favor of their SSI income?
Allocating tax money for contraceptives using your logic is counterproductive because the targeted sector you claim “should” use them won’t…unless maybe the government caps the number of children for which one can receive govt. assistance checks. Instead, it is a rewards system for increasing the size of a family they can not afford to raise.
Currently, throwing tax money into a contraceptive program will not curb the population growth of children the government has to support with tax money. As for women who are not in the business of making babies, they can afford birth control - whether they work, and/or receive govt. assistance - provided they live within their means as the rest of us are required to do.
your the one using arguments which shape an wide reaching ideology instead of just a position on a single issue.
“Your” the one trying to apply my argument to issues to which they do not pertain in a dire attempt to somehow prove my statement is wrong.
Once more:
Receiving something you did not earn and do not deserve is called theft.Take that statement at face value, but don’t be so foolish as to try applying it to issues it doesn’t fit.
