- Free healthcare - Free high quality education
There is no free anything.
Perhaps if you called it 'free-at-the-point-of-use-but-definately-paid-for-by-someone-else' it would clarify why such nice things are difficult to achieve in the real world.
There is no free anything.
Perhaps if you called it 'free-at-the-point-of-use-but-definately-paid-for-by-someone-else' it would clarify why such nice things are difficult to achieve in the real world.
The US is the only country with such wealth that is unable to set it up, and pays more than double than any european country with free healthcare per inhabitant. The real world is calling, and it's telling you the US's approach to health care is more fitting of a third world country.
Perhaps you could take 5 minutes to ponder the assumptions you make about the nationality op anonymous posters.
Free education and free healthcare more than pay for themselves; not just psychologically and morally but economically.
While I’m a proponent of UHC as well I think we do have to look at why people need healthcare. Is it because they are obese and just don’t care? If so more healthcare isn’t a good thing unless they also change underlying habits which lead to the need for healthcare in the first place.
And also obviously someone is paying for these things. “Laughs in the rest of the developed world” is a really immature comment, especially as we start to see universities in that developed world start to sneak back in fees for things. There is no free lunch. Everything costs something. Maybe we are taxing billionaires or w/e is in vogue right now but it still costs money. By making it “free” we also separate out useful market elements - like instead of going to school to be an art history major maybe for free, maybe you should bear some of the burden for a less useful degree than say computer science where there is a need, or plumbing or electricians.
“Liberal arts educations are valuable etc” yea read a book or use the Internet. If you’re not willing to do that freely on your own a university isn’t helping you there and I really doubt the costs are justified.
Don't be a dick.
> Free education and free healthcare more than pay for themselves…
I didn't say they didn't. But they do require someone to pay for it.
And those someone's aren't normally the kind of people attracted to a frontier, libertarian concept like building a new city.