Why? Yes or No

[Centinel]

I'm not taking anyone's property. Once you pay your taxes, that money is not yours anymore. It then becomes part of the collective "ours." Yes, birth control and helping control our population is a good use of that money. It benefits everyone.

So it sounds like you don't think that you, personally, have the legitimate ethical authority to take your neighbors' property by force and use it to provide contraceptives.

So the question then becomes: Which individual people do in fact have the legitimate ethical authority, and how did they acquire that authority?

 

[Wry Catcher]

Taking property by force is Robbery (211 PC in the CA Penal Code); taxes collected are legal, not illegal and are not robbery.

So you are asserting that one person has the ethical authority to the the property of others by force?

No, but nice effort to spin a frozen axle.

 

[ChrisL]

I'm not taking anyone's property. Once you pay your taxes, that money is not yours anymore. It then becomes part of the collective "ours." Yes, birth control and helping control our population is a good use of that money. It benefits everyone.

So it sounds like you don't think that you, personally, have the legitimate ethical authority to take your neighbors' property by force and use it to provide contraceptives.

So the question then becomes: Which individual people do in fact have the legitimate ethical authority, and how did they acquire that authority?

The government (congress) votes on such things. These are elected representatives who are there to "represent" us.