Well,- it sometimes feels that way, but to be fair we do have:
Free education (including university)
Free hospitals and doctors
Cheap medicine
Unemployment benefits
And many other government paid things like em
I would like to disagree with you. This is why:
These things are not free. You are paying for them by way of taxes. This means that you are not only paying for a service, in which you may or may not use, but you are paying at the rate in which the government determines. So basically, the vendor (government) forces you to buy thier products and services,
and THEY determine how much of it you buy
and what price you pay. The prices are fixed, inflated, and if they ever change it is always in the upward direction.
Education: what if you're not in school, have no children in school, and do not need to go to school because you possess a trade skill you use at your place of employment. Then, you're paying for everyone else in school, and it's still at whatever price the government determines. What if a private school, a
better school, comes in and offers top notch education at a price incredibly low, less than half the price in comparison to what the government says it's school costs per student? You could go, get a more advanced education and have more career potential, but you'd still be paying the cost for the other schooling on top of the tuition. Most would choose the "free" (pre-paid) schooling, which could very easily be low quality. This is just one example where this is bad.
Medical care: again, you're paying an inflated price for services that may or may not be of high quality. If the hospitals all get the same pay per customer/procedure/whatever, what incentive do they have to attempt to excel in their field? If they're all equal, people are just going to go to the closest one, instead of the best one. There is no competition in the marketplace to increase quality and decrease prices. ALSO, you're paying for all the lard butts that cannot think long enough to take care of themselves, to get taken care of when they become incredibly ill, and eventually die from their own doings.
Cheap medicine: you're only seeing the "price" that you pay when you get the medicine, you're probably not seeing the millions+ in tax dollars subsidizing the drugs. You're paying for there to be medicine all the time. Even if it was more expensive if it wasn't controlled by the government, you would probably save money in that you'd only be getting it when you needed it, instead of also paying for other people to have it when you don't need it.
Unemployment benefits: if you could save the portion of the money that goes towards this out of your pay, you'd likely have a nice sum adding up, and accuring interest in the bank. More than any payments you would ever receive after becoming unemployed. You would also get to keep the interest, and you wouldn't have to pay the overhead for the departments full of people to process claims and cut checks. People should be responsible for their own well being, and save money themselves instead of spending 100% of each paycheck that comes in, or only saving for those special purchases.
If we got to keep all of our paychecks, we could still live exactly as we do now, except have that extra few hundred bucks or however much going into an interest earning bank account, pay for goods and services at our discretion, and bail ourselfs out when we need it without any extra costs.
You can spend your earned money better, with greater effectiveness and reach, and smarter than the government can ever do it.
