Reminds me of my congressman's telephone town hall. I actually got the first question and plugged the public option, but I was followed by a conservative in full "I got mine, screw you" mode. She was going on about how "I have insurance because I've paid for it, and I don't want you to take that away and give it to someone who doesn't deserve it..." Never mind that none of that was true, it was the sense of entitlement that really got me -- if low-income people are dying in the street, it must be because they're lazy and they deserve to die in the street.

Ma'am, I will not teabag you for twenty bucks.

She acts as if this health care reform would tax HER more. It won't. No plan to do that.

Beyond that, if she's an average wage earner in America, she has access to roads, bridges, libraries, schools, police, firefighters, etc, etc, that she could never, ever come close to affording on her own. She benefits MIGHTILY from the taxation of OTHER people. They have handed over THEIR money so SHE can send her kids to public schools, use the library, have safe streets and so on.

If she is willing to end all contact with everything government has helped build, then she can cry about her money. Until that time, she's just being a major hypocrite and a female version of Scrooge.