I Dont Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
Knock out OpEd from Huffington.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/i-dont-know-how-to-explain-to-you-that-you-should_us_59519811e4b0f078efd98440?utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_source=news_fb&utm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000021§ion=crime
I dont know how to explain to someone why they should care about other people.
Personally, Im happy to pay an extra 4.3 percent for my fast food burger if it means the person making it for me can afford to feed their own family. If you arent willing to fork over an extra 17 cents for a Big Mac, youre a fundamentally different person than I am.
Im perfectly content to pay taxes that go toward public schools, even though Im childless and intend to stay that way, because all children deserve a quality, free education. If this seems unfair or unreasonable to you, we are never going to see eye to eye.
If I have to pay a little more with each paycheck to ensure my fellow Americans can access health care? SIGN ME UP. Poverty should not be a death sentence in the richest country in the world. If youre okay with thousands of people dying of treatable diseases just so the wealthiest among us can hoard still more wealth, there is a divide between our worldviews that can never be bridged.
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Full article at link. Worth a read.