Some of us over here – who are descendants of those who preferred liberty over serfdom, and fought to exercise those natural rights – still uphold those values.
Serendipitously, we also prefer $2.50/gal. gasoline over $8/gal. gasoline, which additionally affords us the privilege of virtually unlimited egress.
Here, it is quite a paradise - as long as we avoid crowding into the densely-populated areas - where people have - sadly
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- embraced the concepts of European-style serfdom.
Unlike the purveyed false propaganda, no one who enters a hospital in the United States is refused care, and - were it not for an infinite power to print and borrow money falsely raising the prices of medical services (with a synthetically-created infinite demand for finite services), far more Americans would be able to easily afford to pay for medical services out of their own earnings, rather than via insurance policies or government aid...but it’s difficult to explain this to those who’ve been taught to embrace dysfunctional Keynesian economics, and who’ve been taught to reject (real) Austrian economics.
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I’m not sure what this has to do with the topic, but I guess (already off topic) gasoline taxation wanders off into the topics of draconian income confiscation and serfdom.
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