Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can ... well, you know the rest.
The problem with free stuff is that it ends up costing the society a lot more than a market system. The high tax burden required stifles job growth with the corresponding reduction in opportunities. In addition, the typical "free" plans require empowering a monstrous central government with its attendant grifter class who ultimately only care about their own privileges and not about whats best for society.
Tuition free college would turn into a nice social venue for a ton of slackers with hundreds of credit hours in the low grade range and no finished degree. We had better results before we had all the assistance we have now and a degree showed something about committment, as well as just getting paid to participate.
I think there is a wide variety of health service that could be offered so cheaply that I probably wouldn’t care if we offered them free. And then we could afford insurance for more expensive stuff. I get so pissy about plans to offer free health care because they never address the fact that hospitals charge $1200 to put in four stitches. It costs $600ish to have a doctor look in my kids ear and write a scrip for antibiotics. If we could offer those “routine emergency” services as cheaply as we should be then I would object much less to taxpayer funding. But we all know there would be service creep - in ten years a vasectomy would be routine and covered by the govt. And hospitals would start passing the bills and by the time I retire we would be on Elizabeth Warren’s 52 trillion dollar Medicare for all. So that’s why I would “object much less” instead of “support with my vote”
Insurance is the problem and not the solution. If there were no insurance, health care would be affordable. Health savings accounts are the solution.
College comes with costs. Nothing of value is free. Don't take out student loans. If you can't afford college, don't go. A skilled trade in the USA will enable you to make a good living.
We are actually extremely short on trades people right now. If you are good in your trade and have a decent amount of business sense you can start your own business and write your own checks at this point.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can ... well, you know the rest.
^ Best response.
In the USA everyone already has healthcare. You can not legally be denied care if you enter an emergency room to be treated.
The problem with free stuff is that it ends up costing the society a lot more than a market system. The high tax burden required stifles job growth with the corresponding reduction in opportunities. In addition, the typical "free" plans require empowering a monstrous central government with its attendant grifter class who ultimately only care about their own privileges and not about whats best for society.
I wish we had the downvote button back. =/
Dat username though
Sounds horrible. No thanks.
Tuition free college would turn into a nice social venue for a ton of slackers with hundreds of credit hours in the low grade range and no finished degree. We had better results before we had all the assistance we have now and a degree showed something about committment, as well as just getting paid to participate.
I think there is a wide variety of health service that could be offered so cheaply that I probably wouldn’t care if we offered them free. And then we could afford insurance for more expensive stuff. I get so pissy about plans to offer free health care because they never address the fact that hospitals charge $1200 to put in four stitches. It costs $600ish to have a doctor look in my kids ear and write a scrip for antibiotics. If we could offer those “routine emergency” services as cheaply as we should be then I would object much less to taxpayer funding. But we all know there would be service creep - in ten years a vasectomy would be routine and covered by the govt. And hospitals would start passing the bills and by the time I retire we would be on Elizabeth Warren’s 52 trillion dollar Medicare for all. So that’s why I would “object much less” instead of “support with my vote”
Insurance is the problem and not the solution. If there were no insurance, health care would be affordable. Health savings accounts are the solution.
College comes with costs. Nothing of value is free. Don't take out student loans. If you can't afford college, don't go. A skilled trade in the USA will enable you to make a good living.
We are actually extremely short on trades people right now. If you are good in your trade and have a decent amount of business sense you can start your own business and write your own checks at this point.