Determining someone's worth is irrelevant to the point. Such a thing is a capricious undertaking in any case, and hardly the basis for deciding who should foot the bill, not whether such cost is warranted in one case and not another. You infer something besides the point.

The point is, who should be paying the bill? Under the current scheme of things, those with no fiduciary or other intrinsic interest in the outcome of the event are nonetheless paying for whatever consequence may materialize. That is simply unacceptable, at any scale. I do not expect you or anyone else to pay my medical costs because I elected to play Rugby 30 years ago, while I was a smoker, and subsequently have incurred chronic injury requiring ongoing medical treatment. It was my choice to do these things. You and everyone else had no say in that decision, so you should not be bearing the burden of paying for them now. That is on me, as it should be. In fact, I still take risks, and I am both willing and able to pay the costs associated with those risks.

To bring this argument full circle, my point is that, as a society, one of the most fundamental aspects of our existence is the notion that each man is responsible for himself at the least. Our survival as a group depends to a large extent on the ability of each individual member making adequate provision for himself and those he is responsible for. Failing this, our society will fall. This is the fundamental principle of our success, and our willingness to forsake that responsibility is what is eroding our way of life.

Folks, if we are to survive, we must first take up our own yokes and expect others to do the same. For the few who have an abundance, regardless what form it may be, they can choose to share that with others who may come up short, but it must be voluntary, not a compulsion. Our country was built on that principle, and prospered with it, and is withering now without it. We must be willing to work hard, to give freely, and to care for one another. This cannot and will not happen if it is by force or threat that we are made to do so. It is a fundamental of human nature to give till it hurts, but to fight vehemently against confiscation.

When you take from me without it first being offered, you diminish us both, as well the value of that which was taken.

This concept has nothing to do with judgment. I have yet to learn of any community that failed due to lack of taxation. But there have been plenty that have because of it.