War Money for Children’s Health Fund? Now That’s Immoral

Is it immoral for the government to not fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program while it is funding the War in Iraq? This guy thinks so:

To summarize, Congress passed drastic expansions to S-CHIP (state-sponsored children’s health insurance), enrollment eligibility covering children with higher family incomes. Supporters of the bill suggest as many as 9 million additional children will be eligible for insurance coverage with the additional $35 billion requested funds over the next five years. The supplementary funding is to come from increased federal sales tax for packs of cigarettes.

President Bush vetoed the bill, citing coverage of children in families that “should” be able to afford health insurance. An attempt to override the president’s veto fell short.

So what exactly is the president’s problem? He has no difficulty asking Congress for $195 billion so the military can fight his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008. Surely, as the moral leader he proclaims to be, he should have no concern with supporting H.R. 976, right? After all, the funding is coming on the backs of people who probably don’t support the bill. And considering the fact Bush is an avid runner who does not smoke, why should he care? This is about making life better for more children, right?

Wrong. This bill is about turning the middle class from independent people into a people dependent on the government. How is taxing people to pay for someone else’s medical care moral? Please explain to me how you can consider it moral to take my property by force and give it to someone else? Isn’t that called theft? Not when the government does it. Then it is called “moral.” Pardon me, but it is immoral to take from one and give to another, regardless of who facilitates it. That is why this country has a shortage of charity hospitals. Why give to a charity hospital when the government is taking the money I would give and already giving it away?

I don’t get why liberals and statists feel the need to steal from Americans for fund these programs when we as a nation give more in charity than any other nation. And that is after being overtaxed. It shows the liberals’ lack of faith in the American way of life, and their faith in socialism and the state. Me? I prefer to rely on God and myself. If I need help, I’ll ask for it, but not force it.

No, universal health care and the S-CHIP program are not moral. They are immoral to the core, because they all involve theft as a source of funding.