If we had free healthcare/college, what's next on the liberal agenda? Free housing, free clothing? Where does the philosophy of "free" end?
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You really have your knickers in a twist today, don't you? Just because you didn't get a college education, free or otherwise? Because you've never been poor enough or sick enough to get health benefits?
Or is this just "piss on the liberals" day, "just because"?
In a post-scarcity utopia where no-one starves, dies of treatable diseases, or goes homeless; and everyone gets an education?
It's idealistic, and won't happen, but the closer we get the better, right?
@Happy Atheists:
You forget that these people are fatally obsessed with social hierarchy, and particularly with keeping those "below" them from attaining their status, They would prefer everyone, even themselves, to suffer, than to lose their relative privilege.
Where does the philosophy of "free" end?
...your arse? You've given yours freely to Donald Fart.
Very liberal with your allegiances, Danielle Butchered.
We've had, not free, but cheap healthcare, and free college for decades. We don't have free housing nor free clothing.
The philosophy of "free" is tax-funded. As we get quite a lot for our tax-money, the tax moral is pretty high in Sweden (if you don't count the richest of the rich, of course; they'd rather hide their money in Switzerland or Lichtenstein).
If everyone contributes a little, we can all have quite a lot of "free" stuff. Like free contraceptives for teenagers, which has reduced our abortion rates significantly.
No tuition fees is going to be a big vote-winner for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party: among first -time voters.
As would the concept of subsidised rail fares, should the former British Rail be re nationalised.
There's a fuckload of air travellers right now who would be overjoyed at the thought of British Airways becoming state owned: no 'Outsourcing' - certainly of IT systems - allowed. [/Heathrow, Gatwick]
Try telling the Americans stranded here that BA being nationalised by a Labour government would be such a bad idea, Danielle Butchered.
The National Health Service, supported by Winston Churchill: a Conservative .
Confused?
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