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You don't pay your vehicle insurance to a for profit private company
Huh? What do you think Progressive, Geico, State Farm, Nationwide, AAA, and Allstate are?
One thing they all have in common is car insurance.
I was wrong about that, apologies...although I'd argue you have the option of not buying a car, which is a viable option in a well infrastructured city like Melbourne.
None of those things are companies where I live.
Sounds like a horrid, retched place where everything is backwards and all the wildlife is deadly.
Everything IS backwards Jay. Drivers sit on the right side of the car and drive on the left side of the road, like in England. Christmas is in the summer. It is hotter on the north side than the south side. The Pacific Ocean is on the east side. But the wildlife is not deadly if you stay far away from the animals.
Unlike many people being able to find other modes of transportation, nobody can avoid high medical bills.
Obama is a moderate Democrat, so the attempts to paint him as part of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party are really questionable. He is no socialist. (On the other hand, I know people on the far left who complain that Elizabeth Warren is a fairly conservative capitalist, so this goes both ways.)
I don't think the Democratic Party has moved too far to the left, if by left we mean economic policy. I'm not happy about the constant focus on identity politics, so I dislike that aspect of progressivism, but I think it's high time to have a real discussion on modern socialism.
Obama was a centrist politician who was branded a leftist or socialist by racist deplorables who believe that any black man with access to power must be a radical.
Just because Obama was painted by his opponents as an un-American radical socialist doesn't mean he was one. Of course he was pretty middle of the road, and gobbled up independents.
Trump's base has shrunk to a hardened nut of deplorables, so this does open the opportunity for the Democrats to go left. But yes, if they go too far in that direction, the independents and disaffected Republicans won't come along for the ride. We'll see what emerges from the primaries.
Distributism seems very much like a trojan horse. Someone or something must control the distribution, to whom, and how much.
Depends on how big a campaign contribution you can give to the GOP.I ask a third time: How much of my labor, in a numerical value representing the percentage, should the state own?
If one really believed this, I think the best step to demonstrate that conviction would be to stop enabling things built using "distributism". You know, things like roads, police protection and the internet.
Depends on how big a campaign contribution you can give to the GOP.
By taxes, just like they are now.Roads and police existed prior to the 16th amendment. How were they paid for then?
You think the government should exist on charitable contributions?I am for voluntary means of taxation. It's the involuntary that seem to make slaves out of all of us.
Roads and police existed prior to the 16th amendment. How were they paid for then?
I am for voluntary means of taxation. It's the involuntary that seem to make slaves out of all of us.
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