• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    That’s the fallacy that I thought was learned back with Ross Perot. You don’t run a country like a business. It’s a government.

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      I’m pretty sure that people who say they want to “run the country like a business” just think it sounds good but haven’t put 2 braincells worth of thought into it. Businesses exist to make money. Government exists to serve citizens.

      Do you want firefighters showing up to your burning house and asking for a credit card before they put out the fire? Or maybe have the post office decide that it’s not profitable enough to service entire states? The whole idea is moronic.

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        I mean, America already charge their citizens for healthcare, so they’re not that far off from your hypothetical

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        Also the USPS is too busy delivering papers full of ads and junk mail, rather than investigating mail theft.

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      How was it learned and when. Where I can lear more? Wikipedia didn’t have any clear answers