Immediately after them I share some of my thoughts about the several responses posted. What is needed, as suggested in the msg I'm responding to, is an acknowledgement that we all will die. They are the people who sponsored the second Luddite world congress, the first one having taken placed 140 or so years ago. I did not mention Lockean thought lightly. Jefferson thought as well as Jacobin ideas and the development of compact-democracy, The Declaration of Independence, and along with Elazars concepts of federalism, shared power, and moral responsibility in modern life, as well as the many other related works.
Values are the key.
My position is that government maintain the conditions that allow everyone to maximize his or her freedom and personal life to the extent desired as long as it does not infringe on another's freedom. If men were angels, government would not be needed. Insofas as who pays, we all do one way or another. The dollar cost of liberating the aging from facing four walls until the end is the tariff, the price of mutual life. There is the rub.