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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Person: "We have chosen not to be slaves to the government"

Anytime I hear this libertarian bullshit about not wanting healthcare because of the gOvErNmEnT, I like to read this copypasta:

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time, as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by the local, state and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door, I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After work, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads to my house, which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshall’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet, which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on Facebook about how the government doesn't help me and can't do anything right.
gpt
Because I'm not an ancap, I can post this.

Energy is fine being regulated publicly because it is something that everyone needs and is charged for based on individual households, buildings, etc.

Water is fine being regulated publicly because it is again something that everyone needs and is charged for based on individual households, buildings, etc.

No body under the age of 55 watches TV. Youtube and every other streaming service proves this is bullshit.

Weather service can be done privately or publicly, but yet again, it is something everyone needs.

I don't need to go further, but every example you listed except the fed and education is more or less something everyone needs equally or is purchased individually based on need.

Those don't cost much. If there was a compromise to be made, those would all be ok to keep.

The problem is, of the biggest spending points: military, social security and other welfare, and medicare/medicaid, only one of those is something that is needed equally by everyone. That being a military force to defend us. The other two are straight taking money from one person's pocket and putting it someone else's. Social security: you don't take out what you pay in. If I run out of funds in retirement due to poor planning, I'm just going to drift off to death. I'm not going to be some damn thief. Medicare: I don't even use medicare nor will I ever. Imagine if water or energy were regulated the way medicare or the dumbass proposed universal medicare. Motherfucker down the road with his faucets turned on all day and 25 top of the line gaming computers running max graphics cyberpunk would pay the same as me.

You can cut taxes on everyone in half if certain people would stop voting to steal other people's money. That means more money for everyone except the people who don't do shit and don't pay taxes to begin with, and I'm fine with that.