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> It's paid for.

Using this definition, everything is paid for, and nothing is free except sunlight. This is obviously a useless definition.

“Paid for by [someone else]” is “free”. There is no other useful definition of the term.

Also: https://satwcomic.com/every-time

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Well, considering I said maybe we should move health care to emergency services,like the police and fire services, added to that comic, I can only assume you completely missed the point of my statement. And while not everything is paid for except sunlight, everything the government provides IS paid for, yes. There is a ledger to be kept. I'm not some hard core conservative, nor am I some hardcore liberal. Like most Americans, I'm somewhere in the middle and am capable of more nuance and critical thought than I am given credit for.

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