Why should citizens be allowed to have their own finances?

[US Government]

The free market is evil and the government is the messiah.

[Perfidious]

Could you please repeat the question I do not understand it

[Sagebrush]

It is in the constitution. It says we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Now this isn't a freedom that the government just gave us it is a freedom 'endowed by our creator' and no government has the right to take that away. When a government takes away that freedom it sets itself up as a power higher than 'our creator'. How much blood was lost on the battlefield so that you and I could have that freedom and yet there are those who would give it away so easily? It is truly sad.

[Kid Curtis 2]

Exactly, the government has a higher calling for our money anyway, the truest words that have ever been spoken is giving a dollar to the government is like giving a fish to Jesus. It's the ultimate free lunch multiplier.

[odin_soulsword]

Actually Free Market while it does have it's bad moments, allows for freedom, government mostly allows for inefficient living, and organization, and if that is emphasized leads' to tyranny.

[nicevegetable355]

Oversimplification of a complex issue...

American citizens can worker for wages and can use the net amounts of those wages however they see fit. The proportionate taxes collected generate revenues to sustain services used by each and every American citizen, to include police and firefighters, highways and roadways, bridges and tunnels, mass or public transportation, our military, food and medicine safety standards through the FDA, clean air and water thanks to the EPA, airline safety requirements from the FAA, Social Security for retirement years or if there is a disability, public schools and colleges, our court system, and so on. If you are implying that Americans have no personal responsibility whatsoever to support these vital benefits and protections, then you are 100% incorrect (and perhaps even greedy).

An analogy: Each member of a large diverse family must in some way contribute to the well-being of the family as a whole. No member should be allowed to simply exist and use up resources paid for by every other family member without, in turn, contributing something that helps sustain the family unit, even if this means simply picking up one's own messes or doing chores from time to time. Same is true of every single American citizen.

[Bill G VIII]

Then you must absolutely love a Marxist fanatic like obama