Opting out of paying one’s taxes to provide a public good because one is paying for a private version should absolutely not be allowed. Private health care or education should not be tax deductible. That said, it should be legal to purchase such services, as the larger market will provide more.
Free market vs public provision is usually best decided on the regularity of the need for it, with the most regular needs served by the former, and the less consistent best served by the provision of public goods. But within that frame, yes, it should work the same for everyone.
I believed this as a proud Canadian regarding the health care system, but a counter-factual I ran into in the Taiwanese health system changed my mind. The availability of paying for private testing has caused a huge amount of investment in testing services, which has huge benefits.
“You do CrossFit?”
Have you told @prof-hinkley.bsky.social?
“I demand to speak to your management team.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
ICE using the decency of the people they are targeting as a tactical weakness, in order to kidnap them. Trump is evil. America chose evil.
“The police should always have to follow the law.” seems like it would play well here.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
The tech that Fervo is developing for the US could be applied in some of the geology on the west coast of Taiwan, which could alleviate some of the upcoming power shortages.
I don’t always go to the beach, but when I do, I bring a rotisserie chicken.
Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day.
Give a man three fish and he'll think you're a genie who can't spell.
Will there be a post office kiosk inside?
A green coral cliff face with many goats standing in difficult-to-reach places.
I don’t mean to be unkind,
but I see what’s in your mind.
Any water you bail, will fly back in your boat.
One day you’ll climb up the wall of goats.
Wall of goats.
-Liam Goatallagher.
“Wall of Goats”
But if I wake up, won’t I be…
young man, you have killed all your sperms, I said
young man, you don’t need to fear germs, I said
young man, give your brain some more worms,
you can eat 👏 that 👏 whale 👏 you scavenged
I would, but it’s a touch salty.
Does that make lamb with rosemary a same-sense marriage?
At Taco Bell, tears in my eyes, demanding a manager explain to me why the cashier won't denounce the global empanada
Ruin a book’s title by replacing one word with butthole:
Butthole of Green Gables
Rob Schneider is left to the beavers in… Collateral Dam.
Extra-large sausage, eggs unavailable, “fluffy” written into the description of every item, including the coffee… menu kind of writes itself.
me, ending a ten-minute monologue about how i bred ox in tibet: …but anyway, enough of my yakkin’!
my wife, pinching the bridge of her nose: did you… did you spend two years breeding ox in tibet *just* so you could do that joke?
me: yes
my wife: THE KIDS THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD
That is an outstanding look you are serving.
Once got mad because my friend said her guy beat her up until I got a straight arm, cuff grab, “sweetie, I asked him to.”. Changed my perspective.
Pope’s fault for dressing like a sofa?
Do not eat it with a spoon. Dilute well in soy, hoisin, or mix into an omelette.
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
