mike wax
Nov 2, 2021

how many poor people die everyday because of the insane cost of health care? Nobody knows, because nobody gives a damn. And what do we do about it? Raise the costs even more.

How many industries are so dominated by unions that their productivity is cut in half because of it?

How many people are homeless because all the housing projects are wasted by bureaucracy and politicians?

How much of our taxes go right down the toilet?

Unfettered regulation is not about anything but cheap votes for rotten politicians- even if it means uncountable lives and livelihoods for poor people.

Capitalism SUCKS, no doubt about it, but so does socialism.

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What you are describing isn't 'socialism' but mismanagement and greed. Unfettered anything is usually problematic. As always finding a balance that best serves the interests of both should be the goal. Can you provide me an example of unfettered…

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I live in a place where healthcare is paid through taxes and run by public institutions and it works perfectly fine and, as far as I know, costs a lot less than in the US. As for "unions" (here we call them "sydicates"), they have managed to…

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OMG...more right wing tripe about the evil socialist boogie man. If workers were being well-paid as they should be, there would be no need for socialism.

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