I'm still in the wage economy, not retired, in a country where the deserving and laggards receive social assistance, as they do in the US.

I pay through taxes for social services in the same way for transportation infrastructure, the military, and corporate welfare recipients.

I extend civilities to everyone and judge more harshly the rich and powerful predators of the public purse than the lazy laggards.

I have never heard a Canadian begrudge healthcare to anyone. I think of taxes for healthcare as insurance and hope I won't need it.

I am a liberal, a minority here. I think of conservative as an euphemism for selfishness. The rich and influential hand in the public treasury seems worse to me than that of the ne'er-do-wells who will always be with us.