Reply #7: Seriously?

[Ravenseye]

Look. I believe in progressive taxation to help provide for the hardships of life but come on.

If you live in Germany and you're physically disabled, you can live a decent life, and not have to worry. If you want to work, and make more money than the government provides, you can. If it's too hard, you don't have to. Good.

If you lost your job and you spend a couple years looking for a new one, because jobs in your field are hard to come by, the government doesn't let you slip into poverty. Good.

If you just don't want to work, and want to sit around all day doing nothing for extended periods of time, for whatever reason...no...I don't think the government should support you, and rich people shouldn't support you either.

You shouldn't be worried about how you're going to pay for food or health care if you lose your job, heck in this country people who work 80 hours a week worry about those things. I just will never support taxing ANYONE just so someone can sit on their ass. That's all the german government is really doing now. Saying to people that their coverage won't last forever. There are people there who haven't worked in 5, 10, 20 years...and don't plan on getting a job. I'll never support giving people money when they have no desire to do anything.

I'll worry about the people who work their ass off and still have problems, not the ones who don't want to particpate in their own society.