With all this talk about universal health care, why isn’t anyone discussing the obvious moral issue?
Seventy years ago, when I was a child, we were taught that citizens of a free society had “unalienable rights”--meaning rights that were not transferable from one person to another.
We had rights to our own bodies and to our own minds and to the property they produced together. This property, like ourselves, belonged to us alone. No one else had a priority “right” to it.
If someone we knew had medical problems they couldn’t handle themselves, and we voluntarily decided to help, we helped them and were proud of it.
But, nobody, including the state, had a priority right to take our property from us by force, through taxes, to pay someone else’s medical bills. That would be considered ordinary theft and therefore profoundly immoral.
Why aren’t our new public servants in Washington defending our moral, unalienable rights to our own property and ourselves?
Kenneth C. MacDonald
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