12-21-2016, 08:38 PM
(12-21-2016, 08:24 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(12-21-2016, 06:44 PM)SammyOES2 Wrote: Ijmorlan, your idea of paying for something is simplistic and dumb.
I watched a movie on Netflix today, but my finances didn't change. Is Netflix free?
I pay a bunch of taxes and a health care charge. But when I go to the hospital it doesn't change my finances. Is health care free?
As far as I'm concerned you're a zealot. Making logically poor arguments and being willfully ignorant.
First of all, healthcare is free because if you make no income and don't pay any money to healthcare, you still can go to the hospital for free. Netflix isn't free, because if you make no income and don't pay Netflix, they won't let you watch movies.
Netflix is not free because you pay for it, and can opt out of it. Healthcare is free, because we've decided as a society we should give it to everyone, regardless of whether you pay for it, and you cannot opt out of paying for it.
Calling someone a zealot is not conducive to a useful conversation. You're just going to put them on the defensive and make them more unlikely to listen to your arguments.
If you make no income you cant afford a car to drive around and didn't buy gas for the car and didn't pay to register it, and aren't contributing to health care either which we don't give to everyone and isn't free.
This whole thread is beyond stupid, it's like no one has ever lived out in the sticks and realized that roads are a needed part of life, of course I guess we can not tar and chip roads out to farms, who needs them.
I prefer my 30 minute drive to waterloo than my 2 hour trip on the bus..