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by psyc 3507 days ago
If you're the kind of person who feels entitled to tell others what to do to begin with. I'm perfectly happy to pay taxes so everyone can have socialized health care, and to stay out of other people's choices.
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The more one pays for the choices of others, the more they feel entitled to be influence those choices.

If the health care costs keep going up, and/or they start rationing/queueing, that may have a big enough impact on you that you change your opinion.

Even if you keep your opinion, when you vote for socialism you are voting to force everyone to pay for Joe's poor choices. They might not be so generous.

If you want to just pay into a no-strings-attached social fund, and not force everyone else, that would preserve freedom.