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gMy attention span is equal to 64 pages of meaningful text - The Spirit Leve l remained fascinating over 352 pages, but Bastiat - even in translation - comes across a pompous and self-righteous cheapskate. A very articulate che apskate, but a perfectly obvious cheapskate.
Nobody is suggesting that it should. You - and Bastiat before you - make a neat side step from approving of society taking money for purposes that yo u approve of - though Bastiat's text spends a lot of time and rhetoric avoi ding that point - to disapproving of taking it for any purpose you personal ly don't approve of.
There are going to be situations where the community approves of purposes t hat individuals don't like - easy access to contraception and abortion come to mind - but that's the problem with democracy. It can't keep every lunat ic minority happy.
Bastiat doesn't address the fact that his is a minority opinion, and buries his cheapskate inclinations in a mountain of moralising claptrap.
You have decided that you can get away with claiming that socialists want t o control everything, so that their preference for ensuring that everybody gets good education and good health care becomes the imposition of the nann y state, rather than reasoned steps towards setting up a better-functioning society.
It's rubbish, and there's no clearer indication that it's rubbish than your passion for over-generalised strawman arguments.