Can you explain this inconsistency to me?

Simple, all 3 are crimes.

All 3 are equally a crime. It is funny in none of your Scenarios did the neighbors even 1st ask the wealthy individual for compassion. Conservatives tend to give more to charity than the liberals as a percentage of their income. Seems like they in doing that are more morally correct than the Left. Jesus never said the Romans (Government at the time) to take care of the down trodden.

To Whatstha.. How many firehouses are in the town? Since the rich pay most of the taxes they are sharing thier fire equipment that they'd have to have anyway. Health care is different. There are many doctors in a town. Their taxes they pay is more than it would cost for them to have a doctor on call 24/7/365. The Left haven't learned nuances. An Utopia doesn't exist.

So when an insurance company denies a legitimate insurance claim because they aren't going to make enough money this quarter for Wall Street and make the CEO's bonus fat, that is legal too. I guess everyone is violated in life.

There is a concept of the Commons you miss out on. Laws are made by people to establish and maintain a healthy and functional society. Using the threat or act of violence to take what you want only works for Americans in other countries. I know you are simply looking for a knee-jerk answer, but there is a reason why America came into greatness and had massive GDP growth after WWII. If you refuse to acknowledge that, then you miss out on why selfish greed is what will drop America from being the only superpower.

That sick person goes bankrupt. They lose their house. Their family either 1) goes destitute and relies on other public services to survive or 2) damage a generation of children with malnutrition all because mommy got sick. Regardless, the foreclosure lowers everyone's property value. And that is a real world example, not a hypothetical.

EDIT: Now, if you can explain to me how simply putting money into a company and then living off the profits derived from the labor of the workers is "earning it," I would be captivated.

The scenario you created is fictional, except for the third one. What really happens in the real world is those that don't have any insurance to to the emergency room for urgent care that could have been avoided if there was regular maintenance. These poor people are treated and the expense is passed on to all tax payers. Hospitals can not deny urgent care.

In reality the health care reform only dictates that insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for those people that are making payments and there are no limits on how much they can charge. There is no provision to force the rich to pay for those that can't afford to pay.

In your narrow definition of 'earned and unearned' wealth distribution, were do the elderly fit in?

Why don't you see what a crime it is to your fellow human beings when they are denied health care? Do you truly feel that it is ok for someone to be denied health care because they can't afford it? Obviously, you don't live in the real world because if in fact you did, you would realize how difficult it is to purchase and pay for health insurance even when you ARE working your butt off.

First of all, we are taxed to some degree. The rich do not suffer terribly by being taxed. Yes, they earned their money but so do a lot of middle class and poor people. Those that do not earn it, well, did you ever wonder how they got where they were in the first place? Ok, some of them are lazy welfare cases, but a lot of them aren't working because they can't or they've had their spirit broken beyond belief, working for peanuts and not getting anywhere, seeing that most of America and their government does not care for them.

Are you so afraid of losing what you have and giving to those that need it? God, I'm so glad that you weren't the deciding factor in whether or not my father would have received health care because he was unemployed and didn't have insurance. He would have died.

Don't you realize that by giving to those that need it, you are effectively HELPING society? Sick people can't work, sick people are miserable! Do you deserve to determine who gets the health care they need and who doesn't? Like I said, EVERYONE is taxed, money is being taken from everyone. The rich do not suffer if they are taxed a bit more than than average, they are still well off and able to afford luxuries and health care and all their necessities!

You think that you are being honorable in saying that those that work hard are having their money taken from them only to be given to those that don't work. But where do your ethics lie? In greed? That is an animal mentality, survival of the fittest. The rich are far from being robbed!

Where you should really be focusing your attention is on the OTHER silly institutions your tax money flows into.

No... But, I find the idea of denying people who cannot afford health care to be inconsistent whenever those poor people are paying some of the taxes to a government that feels compelled to render health care to the poor and needy people of other nations... Isn't this taking the taxes paid by one group of people in one nation and giving them to the poor people of another nation inconsistent?

And what of refusing health care to the lower income group of a nation and bailing out incompetent bankers and mismanaged mega corporations with overpaid CEO's? Is this being inconsistent or being guilty of inequality because the government is corrupted and it is no longer a democracy? Is a government that claims to be a democracy while it is in fact an oligarchy, inconsistent?

Oh you paint such as wonderful picture for the poor rich person... but the thing you FAILED to bring up is that the one so called RICH person was the insurance company and the person who was sick had been paying the rich on for 10 years a very high Premium so that if anything was to ever happen to him he could get medical insurance. Only for Rich man to cut off his medical Access the moment the poor guy was diagnosed.

This has happened to not one but two babies in my family, and one of the mothers. The people who are fighting for heath care reform... and the reform that was passed if you took the time to read the bill, is not "redistribution of wealth" it making sure that we get and have access to what we are paying for.

And frankly you little story time proves just how little you understand how many people were dieing... yes I said DIEING under the old system... my 6 year old nephew was one of them. SO excuse me if I don't care about the poor rich guy who owed me a serves that I paid for and never delivered. That is called stealing. and its a shame so many on the right can't seem to understand that.

EDIT: THANK YOU INTELEX that is exactly what happened to my sister in-law when her son got sick. She had a good job, worked hard all of her life, but by the time he was 9 months old the bills where in the millions he had to be life flighted and had months int he hospital, After she was hospitalized for working several jobs just to pay for the bills she would never be able to pay, she was forced to quit her job and get government help... she lost everything... but her only choice was that or let her son die. OH and as for the Churches, they offer only offer to pray... never to actual help.

True. Too bad the churches and the wealthiest among us can't do the right thing and help their fellow neighbor out. If we, the citizens, would do more noble acts of kindness and charity then there wouldn't be so much dependence on the govt to take care of these needs. The power would shift from the govt to the people. Our govt is moving us one step closer toward the New World Order.

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Scenario 5: The poor person dies without treatment because his neighbors don't give a flying hump.

The idea of money and owning things only exists because government exists. Without some form of government to enforce and protect ownership wealth can never exceed what you can personally protect. So if you're wealthy you should remember that your wealth depends on everybody else playing the game. If we decide to stop playing the game you are just another bum looking for his next meal.

Well no rich person would live in the same neighborhood as poor people and that's why the Obama's won't move back to Kenya and will have to be removed by force from the White House in 2012 when he gets voted out by a landslide//

Wow maybe they should have just asked the rich guy if he would help out. He's probably a nice guy who is very charitable and good to people. That's probably how he got rich.