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cawacko

cawacko

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In another thread I believe you said you support things such as free healthcare, free education and maybe something else for the American people.

I was just curious your take on this. If you believe certain things should be free or a "right" what about food, clothing and possibly even housing?

From a basic human perspective we all need to eat. Free college is great but food is a necessity. Clothing also goes into necessity department for most of the country.

I'm not trying to tell you you are right or wrong in your beliefs I'm just asking your thinking behind it.
 
It's something everyone needs, but it's as cheap as hell. It would be a very complicated and beaurocratic process to make all food "free", and basically everyone can afford it anyway. If anyone can't, they have food stamps. I've also really always thought that defining anything as a "necessity" is really fallacious. "Needs" are just something everyone wants really badly, and supposedly for noble purposes (like lookin' good to the girls in those new courdorois pants).

Education, on the other hand, isn't something that's easily paid for at one time, and it would be easier to manage on a universal basis anyway.
 
Watermark said:
It's something everyone needs, but it's as cheap as hell. It would be a very complicated and beaurocratic process to make all food "free", and basically everyone can afford it anyway. If anyone can't, they have food stamps. I've also really always thought that defining anything as a "necessity" is really fallacious. "Needs" are just something everyone wants really badly, and supposedly for noble purposes (like lookin' good to the girls in those new courdorois pants).

Education, on the other hand, isn't something that's easily paid for at one time, and it would be easier to manage on a universal basis anyway.
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Would (college) education then be run by the federal government?
 
cawacko said:
Would (college) education then be run by the federal government?
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I'd really rather have a voucher system in place. This may or may not be paid for by the federal government, I don't really care. If we had, for instance, a 50/50 split between federal and state dollars, it would really help out the poorer states without holding back the rich ones too much. I know it would make all the difference in Mississippi, which has a per capita income of 1/4th of Connecticuts.
 
Watermark said:
It's something everyone needs, but it's as cheap as hell. It would be a very complicated and beaurocratic process to make all food "free", and basically everyone can afford it anyway. If anyone can't, they have food stamps. I've also really always thought that defining anything as a "necessity" is really fallacious. "Needs" are just something everyone wants really badly, and supposedly for noble purposes (like lookin' good to the girls in those new courdorois pants).

Education, on the other hand, isn't something that's easily paid for at one time, and it would be easier to manage on a universal basis anyway.
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In other words, the real problem is that people need to learn to save better, they won't learn this by having government step in and take care of all their longer term spending needs (ie: retirement, healthcare and college education)
 
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