Everyone who supports the idea of mandatory taxation essentially thinks others should give them money for nothing.
I support the idea of mandatory taxation and I want nothing for free. I want to chip in to build the roads and schools, and to fund the fire department, and I want you to do so as well if you earn above a certain threshold. If I earn more than you, I'll pay more than you. Gladly.
I don't see any good reason to believe that. They look more like opportunist that exploit poor people for their own benefit.
Sanders and AOC are altruists. So am I, and I stand with them. They are the champions of the poor, as am I. They get nothing from them, as is the case with me as well. This is basic Golden Rule stuff.
By what I see, humanists are more like hedonists who do good, if they benefit it in someway.
We all fit that description. You do good to get to heaven. I do good for the reward my conscience gives me, and to avoid the punishment it gives me when I don't.
I think the advice "no thought for tomorrow" is often wrongly understood, because the point is:
...which of you by worrying can add an hour to his life?
Luke 12:25
It would be nice to know, what do you get by worrying?
Thinking about tomorrow isn't worrying. It's planning. I know an American woman living here in Mexico who gave no thought to her future. She underreported her earnings and so gets very little in Social Security - $1000/mo. She has no savings, and her credit is exhausted. She's been hammered by both inflation and the weaking of the dollar relative to the peso. That $1000 USD was about 20,000 pesos last year, but more like 16,000 now. NOW she can start worrying.
Do you think world would not be better, if people would love their enemies?
No. Love means to protect and to share resources. I don't love enemies. I avoid them. My point was that Jesus' moral code and advice isn't right for me. It violates my sense of right and wrong.
Speaking of which, it's interesting reading this after reading your opinions on socialism and taxation. What is paying taxes so that we might all be safe (military, police, food inspection) and prosperous (infrastructure and markets, public education) and that the poor and sick, and unlucky have enough to live if not loving one's neighbor?
But not enemies. The MAGA that want to "own the libs" and drink their tears (remember "fk your feelings" in 2017 after the election?) - they're enemies, and they get bupkis from me. And I shed nary a tear when this demographic refused vaccines and did most of the dying full of bleach and deworming medicine.
