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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by willravel
Liquitur - If you look at socialized programs, they do yield cost benefits. They all pay way less per person than we do because the administrative, malpractice, and insurance costs virtually disappear. So if we model our system on one of the other systems, hopefully France, we should see prices drop for everyone. Even Cynth.
Cynth - if you want to live in a city state, that's your call. We have federal issues here in the USA. We have state issues here in the USA. That's how it works here. When you pay taxes, you're paying for sidewalk that *gasp* someone else will walk on, and it may not even be in your community. I know it pains you greatly to pay for something someone else will use, but you do.
You open your pockets by being a citizen. You do, no one else. If you don't want to pay for things like sidewalks or police, then there are plenty of desert islands in international waters that you could inhabit.
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You don't recall that YOU stated you don't differentiate the differences between local and federal government. You lump them all together.
Again, I do open my wallet as needed, but there's no need for me to pay for someone's police force in San Jose. It's not relevant to my life nor is it any consequence for you to pay for the New York City Housing that's just a few blocks from where I live. Now if you'd like to do that with all things, hey that's your perogative. I don't like paying more taxes. You may not like and loathe the monies you earn, I don't.
If I recall you have stated you have a daughter. I don't want to pay for your daughter's education. I'm stuck paying for basic education, but when it comes to higher education? No. I'm not interested in that. You choose to have a child, not me. YOU pay for her higher education.
Or should it be another one of your socialized programs because everyone should have higher education?
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