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| Media Link - Washington Times | ||
| Monday, 02 February 1998 00:00 | ||
In his State of the Union address, President Clinton proposed spending tax money on a new nationalized child care program. This means that I am responsible for my neighbor's children -- in fact, all children throughout the entire nation. If I am responsible for their child care, am I also responsible for their grocery bills? Their new car? Braces for the kids' teeth? Where does it stop? By what right do President Clinton and his supporters in Congress force me to pay for other people's child care? I did not choose to have other people's children. Just as those parents are not responsible for my choice to buy a house or attend graduate school, I should not be responsible for their choice to have children and opt for child care services. America is becoming one giant collective. In a collective, everyone is responsible for everyone else, but nobody is really responsible for himself. Witness how well collectivism worked in Russia, Eastern Europe and Cuba. Forcing you and me to be responsible for everyone else's livelihoods makes us less able to be responsible for ourselves. We wonder why morality and ethics are on the decline in this country, yet a majority of us continue to favor increased government subsidies for child care, health care, college tuition and almost everything else imaginable. Politicians such as Mr. Clinton preach the virtue of personal responsibility and then expand the very government programs that undermine it. Why not get the government out of all these areas, return the tax money to the people who earned it, and let each individual decide for himself or herself how to spend it?
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