Because you and I aren't always going to be able to fford it, in fact you and I and our whole families and best friends sometimes con't afford. And the damned government already has stockpiles of my money that they are wasting on buraeucracy instead of putting it were it is needed, that's why.
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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"
President Merkin Muffley