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Old 08-02-2018, 02:34 PM   #13
xoxoxoBruce
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Originally Posted by henry quirk View Post
...for everyone, I'm guessin'.

What's the 'cost' of such a thing?
Cost of everything? For health care, $2 Trillion less than we spend now, for the rest, a lot less than the cost of not having them.

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Originally Posted by henry quirk View Post
"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind" -Frederic Bastiat
Theoretically, an individual decides between himself and others, whereas the legislator deciding between doing what's best for everyone or a few, with no(or very little) skin in the game.
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