If voluntarily giving to those less fortunate is the christian thing to do then anyoneone who calls themself a christian (I'm roman catholic) should be in favour of a system of wealth redistribution that is not communist in its approach to this - i.e. if you work hard and earn a lot of money, then you get to feel the benefit of that, which is fair. Which was what I was actually talking about...
the 10% by the way is not solely for healthcare
I am a person who lives in a country with universal healthcare. It works. Period. In the last 5 years, every member of my immediate family has had medical treatment including my grandmother who had to have a 3 hour long operation (her fourth so far) that would have bankrupted us all if we didn't have universal healthcare. I pay about 10% (a very jewish/christian/muslim ethic by the way) of my earnings every month in taxes to enjoy this service. Sure, in the short term I have
I'm not a U.S. citizen and nor am I connected with the U.S. in any way apart from having spent long periods of time visiting the country - great times with great people from all colours of the political spectrum. One of the reasons for my first visit was that I realised I was what you might call an 'America basher'. Upon this realiSation, I decided that instead of whining about how the U.S. does this and the U.S. does that, I would go and see this 'demon' in the flesh. Result? I found