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JohnLaw says

To say that you have a right to healthcare services is ridiculous.

No more ridiculous than saying you have a right to call the cops if you don't pay income taxes.

Imagine this scenario of a woman and her children:

"Help, three guys are climbing into my house!"
"Did you pay income tax?"
"Not last year, I lost my job as a secretary of a tire company six months ago and this year I only work 20 hours a week at Hillbilly's buffet washing dishes for $7.00. Because of my kids I qualify for some food stamps, too."
"Fuck You Then. Literally! Bwahahahaha! Stupid parasite! What do you think, you can just freeload off Police Services? And by the way, bitch, when you get impregnated by these rapists, don't come crying to us, we ain't givin' away healthcare. And, abortion is a sin against Jesus!"

Vicente says

The real problem with his "47%" comments was it got caught on tape.

I think they, the politicians, are all like that. Mitt was just the one who was caught lying. I bet he doesn't even see it as an ethical problem, only as a marketing problem that he wants to address through deceptive advertising.

Of the 47%, half are on Social Security. The vast majority of those had 15% taken out of their paychecks for SS and MC for 4 decades, so they prepaid all their benefits.

Another third make too little money to pay income taxes.

Only about 1/8th of 'em have no job and live off the government. And some of those are disabled.

How much subsidies do the top 1% get? Mortgage Interest deductions, subsidies to the companies they control, etc. Shit some multi-billion dollar businesses would be untenable without subsidies, like large scale commodity agriculture.