DO NOT STEAL! Those of us who can should contribute our fair share to the State

It is fair that all of us who can contribute to public services. If there is a public healthcare system from which we all benefit, it is reasonable to ask that all those who are in a position to do so contribute to its funding. Those with an illness or disability that prevents them from working should not. Children and retirees who contributed over the years should not. But everyone else should.

The same applies to children’s education. All children have the right to free education. But all their parents have an obligation to contribute to it to the extent they can. And the same goes for the rest of the state services and infrastructure that we all use, such as subsidized transport, streets, or roads.

Therefore, whoever does not contribute financially because they do not want to work, despite being able and of working age, should dedicate hours of community work in the public sector to gain access to these services. It is common sense that everyone pulls their weight, and not just some while others do not. Why should some contribute and others not? Why this unjust inequality? For a car to function well, it must rely on all 4 wheels, not just 3.

Therefore, it is also sensible that those who receive minimum income and non-contributory pensions and are able to work should, in return, dedicate hours of work in the public sector. Even if they have little or no qualifications, they can dedicate themselves to public service, gardening, cleaning, museum surveillance, clearing forests, etc. And do so for a number of hours equivalent to the amount of benefits received. For the scales of justice to be more or less balanced, equilibrium between what is received and what is given is necessary, that is, a quid pro quo or, to put it more simply, a give and take.

And the same applies to free food received from NGOs subsidized by the State, as well as other aid financed by the citizenry as a whole. Because forcing honest citizens to work part of their time for free, against their will, for freeloaders who can but do not want to work constitutes theft and a partial servitude or slavery.

Read LET’S LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! Let’s not steal, neither directly nor indirectly

Read LET’S AVOID HARM!: Let’s rebel against slavery, including disguised forms

LET’S AVOID ANY TYPE OF UNJUST PARASITISM!

At the same time, if the State abuses the taxpayer by rulers or officials stealing their money to line their pockets or buy votes for their client networks, or by squandering it for selfish interests or in other ways, the abused citizen does not have to contribute beyond what is fair.

If one party does not comply, the other does not have to either, provided that the second party’s non-compliance is more or less proportional to the first party’s. Politicians must be the first to set an example of integrity. And when they do not, they cannot expect citizens to pay and keep quiet without protest. Because although citizens have a civic duty to put their money into the common fund, contributing to shared resources, they are not obliged to be fools or to allow themselves to be robbed.

Let’s do something to create a society that is not abusive, but honest, where instead of exploiting others, they are respected.

Read LIVE WITHOUT HARMING: Let’s be honest

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