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Bu's Little Quiz

This is just an informational quiz. Please feel free to answer the questions and submit your answers. I am simply curious to know people's opinions on certain political agenda items.

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Scenario #1
Let’s say you and I are neighbors, and we have a common neighbor whose house is between ours. Our neighbor becomes ill, and can no longer work. His wife works, so they have some income but they can’t afford things they used to. You and I talk to each other and decide that we will help the man out and each of us give the man 150.00 in the first month of the neighbor’s illness. In the second month, we each give 150.00 to the ill neighbor again, and out of kindness, continue to do so for 11 months. In the twelfth month, you notice I hadn’t come forward with 150.00 dollars to give to the neighbor. You knock on my door and ask me why I haven’t paid my fair share to help the neighbor. My answer to you is that I just bought a new car and didn’t have the cash to contribute to the neighbor.

Do you have the right to force me to give up 150 dollars to help out our neighbor?

Scenario #2
Let’s say I am an insurance agent and I knock on your door to sell you a policy. You’re not a bad guy, so you don’t slam the door in my face. You recently determined that you need some insurance, so you will hear what I have to sell and make a decision to buy based on the qualifications of the plan.

The plan I have to sell is a simple plan. I will work with your employer for him to withhold 15% of your paycheck before he gives you your pay. You will pay me for this insurance for your entire life, until you retire. Over the life of the premium, you have paid me over 150,000 dollars over a 25 year span. When you retire and request your pay out, I tell you that I am not legally obligated to pay you anything according to the contract you signed, but I put you on a monthly payout schedule where it will take you 20 years to realize your money your initial investment. (150,000/20 = 7,500 a year = 625.00 a month). If you happen to die before you get your money back, you forfeit it to me.

Would you buy this insurance premium?

Scenario #3
You have two children who have graduated high school within the last two years. Your neighbor has one child who graduated with your youngest child. You have saved your entire life to put your children through school and you have the money to pay their full tuition with enough money left over to pay another kid’s full tuition. Your neighbor, although he worked very hard too all his life, just can’t seem to come up with college tuition, and his kid didn’t have the grades to obtain any kind of scholarship so he’s not lucky enough to go to college.

Do you feel obligated to pay your neighbor’s kid’s tuition?

Scenario #4
You and I are neighbors on a private road that only you and I use. You have four teenage children and a wife, all of whom have cars. I live by myself and work out of my home. My household doesn’t use the private road as much as your household does. Because I have worked hard all my life, I make a substantial income and can afford to fix the road which has fallen into disrepair. You, raising four children have also worked hard all your life but because of all the expenses you have (four kids, all with cars, and a wife with a car), you can’t afford to pay for the road improvement.

Do you have a right to force me to fix the road that I don’t use as much as you because I can afford it?

Scenario #5
You are a cat burglar. You make a living staking out potential targets and hitting them; sometimes 3 or 4 in one night. You are cruising through a neighborhood and come across a street in the subdivision with 4 houses on each side. On one side of the street there is a huge sign that says “The houses on this side of the street are guarded by Smith & Wesson”. On the other side of the street there is another sign that reads. “This is a gun free zone”

Which side of the street do you hit?

Scenario #6
You’ve added general mugging to your resume and decide to hit some poor sap that evening. That night you find yourself on the road heading toward the outskirts of town. You turn down a road called “Airport Road”, and you a find a very tall and well built man walking toward his car from the airport. On the other side of the road you see a building labeled “City Gun Club and Firing Range” with a middle aged short woman walking out of the building.

Who do you decide to rob?

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"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing." -Sir Edmund Burke