YAY for healthcare!
03-22-2010, 11:47 AM
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I'd be all for putting in those EZ Pass tollbooths and cutting out road taxes entirely. Pay for your use, not the right to use it. I drive 10-15 miles a week in vehicles that weigh no more than 3200 lbs, why should I subsidize the people who are driving 300-400 miles a week in vehicles that weigh nearly twice that?
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03-22-2010, 11:51 AM
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I'd be all for putting in those EZ Pass tollbooths and cutting out road taxes entirely. Pay for your use, not the right to use it. I drive 10-15 miles a week in vehicles that weigh no more than 3200 lbs, why should I subsidize the people who are driving 300-400 miles a week in vehicles that weigh nearly twice that?
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03-22-2010, 11:59 AM
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Either way bandwidth is getting so insane I'd be surprised if this happened for anything other than what is already out there. The internet that uses the cellphone network for example.
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03-22-2010, 12:00 PM
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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03-22-2010, 12:38 PM
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this is totally different from what i expected on a miata turbo forum... i mean, we drive miatas? 
pro healthcare advocate, i live in kalifornia, the only state large enough to be considered a competitive world economy.
pro healthcare advocate, i live in kalifornia, the only state large enough to be considered a competitive world economy.
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03-22-2010, 12:43 PM
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this is really interesting considering I have no idea how your current system works but it sounds like our "private health insurance" we pay for private which gives us faster access to doctors/ hospitals/ surgery ect, then we have Medicare which is gov funded (by taxes) which everyone has a right too, as you can prob tell by my use of the word faster, this is only reliable when it comes to basic illness, of dr visits that are in & out that supply a prescription, other than that unless you’re dying you have maSSive cue’s in hospitals... If funded correctly it would be great but the gov intentionally don’t so people by private..... sux really, we pay just under $200 for my wife & myself per month for private....
My brother in law has worked hard for about 5 years, he is pretty young & has been diagnosed with a disease which will stop him working within 2 or so years, after that his money will run out pretty quick, his medical bills (private) are pretty big now as it only covers so much, when he stops working he won’t be able to afford private or the expensive medicine which will leave him pretty much for dead unless he gets a special cover by the gov, in which they pretty much cover all his costs, in the U.S under what ive heard in this thread you guys would have him die because he wouldn’t get the cover he needs... unless there’s more to your system that I don’t know about...
this could be your brother or sister am I right?
if I may can I put this question out to everyone.... if it’s not too touchy
would you rather see homeless people on the streets of the U.S helped & not spend so much on military or be a superpower & not help out with the amount of homeless the U.S has? this has always bugged me as to what the general U.S population would say...
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03-22-2010, 12:44 PM
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Businesses cant move out of CA fast enough.
OPRAH....******* OPRAH, makes sure never to stay in her CA home long enough to have it considered her primary residence so she can avoid CA taxes.
CA has the largest operating deficit, deficit and entitlement programs in the nation; you guys had to delay your tax refunds cause you didn't have the money to pay them back on time...of course interest free.
You live in the worst state in the nation. You couldn't compete with the world because then you'd have to try hard without handouts. you'd ask your competitors to take it easy on you cause it's not fair, then you'd smoke weed and tax the only thing benefiting your state until they were driven to move out, thus taking in less money each year.
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03-22-2010, 12:51 PM
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA AH AH AHAHAHAHAHa AH aH a ah AHA a competitive world economy...ROFL.
Businesses cant move out of CA fast enough.
OPRAH....******* OPRAH, makes sure never to stay in her CA home long enough to have it considered her primary residence so she can avoid CA taxes.
CA has the largest operating deficit, deficit and entitlement programs in the nation; you guys had to delay your tax refunds cause you didn't have the money to pay them back on time...of course interest free.
You live in the worst state in the nation. You couldn't compete with the world because then you'd have to try hard without handouts. you'd ask your competitors to take it easy on you cause it's not fair, then you'd smoke weed and tax the only thing benefiting your state until they were driven to move out, thus taking in less money each year.
Businesses cant move out of CA fast enough.
OPRAH....******* OPRAH, makes sure never to stay in her CA home long enough to have it considered her primary residence so she can avoid CA taxes.
CA has the largest operating deficit, deficit and entitlement programs in the nation; you guys had to delay your tax refunds cause you didn't have the money to pay them back on time...of course interest free.
You live in the worst state in the nation. You couldn't compete with the world because then you'd have to try hard without handouts. you'd ask your competitors to take it easy on you cause it's not fair, then you'd smoke weed and tax the only thing benefiting your state until they were driven to move out, thus taking in less money each year.
wanna hit?however, state per capita rating at 11th is deffinetely not fantastic
DAMN YOU NUMBER 8 (virginia!)
OPRAH....******* OPRAH
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