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I have compassion for people. I help starving orphans. What do you do?
HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 11 minutes after the original post[^][v]#454,896
@previous (B)
Forcing impoverished children to suck the cocks of creepy British tourists in your orphanage/brothel for a serving of rice a day is hardly a sign of compassion.
Meta joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#454,897
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This is very interesting. Obamacare was beta-tested in Massachusetts, I wonder if this is a pilot for Federal universal healthcare. So when people get fed up with the ACA the party in power can say "look how much simpler and cheaper it is in Vermont" (it matters little if it's team red or team blue: Obamacare and Romneycare are exactly the same).
Can Vermont pull this off without raising taxes enough to drive taxpayers out? Vermont can't print money and they're very limited compared to the federal government in how much they can tax and spend.
Honestly we might as well just pull the trigger and be done with it. Healthcare in America stopped being a "free market" about 70 years ago.
HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 55 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#454,903
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Hopefully it can be seen as a "success story" for states' rights.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 7 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#454,939
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Both Vermont and Massachusetts are smaller states with a good amount of wealthy population. This kind of stuff can work well at that scale. It would be a whole different story in Texas or California.
Falco joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 56 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#454,942