Free Community College

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If you don’t believe in collectively each of us paying a little something so that we all can benefit and that no one is disadvantaged, then I suggest you cancel your life insurance, you cancel your homeowners or fire insurance, you cancel your flood insurance, and you cancel your car insurance.

Because the Lord forbid, you pay some thing that you don’t directly benefit from and somebody else gets a little pennies of your money out of your pocket from that insurance company.

The concept is exactly the same - we each pay a little so all can benefit.

Actually, life insurance, homeowners insurance, and car insurance are all personal, through private insurance companies, and only benefit yourself.  If I own my house free and clear and cancel my HO insurance, and my house burns down, nothing happens to anyone except me.  I'm the one with a lot and no house.  If I have HO insurance, I can rebuild.  There is no effect on anyone other than my family.  Nobody else pays anything, or benefits.  If we don't have life insurance and my husband dies, then I get nothing.  Nobody else would benefit.  Nobody else pays off my house for me.  I'm the one that suffers for not having insurance, nobody else.

So I'm not sure how this concept is the same in any way.
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I also did not say that I don't think having community college paid for by tax dollars isn't a worthwhile goal.  I think the government is going to completely screw it up, as they usually do with just about anything they do.  And I said that we should stop calling things free when they are not. 

I also think you are completely wrong when you say that people understand that.  They don't.  I hear every year as people getting tax refunds - it's like they got free money from the government.  Ummm....no, you OVERPAID your taxes and you're getting a REFUND.  It's not a freaking gift!  If you owed $2,000 on a credit card and paid $2,200, and they sent you back a check for $200, it was not a gift from the credit card company.  SMH