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> What if he's not dead? Then you wouldn't be inheriting anything in the legal sense of the word. That's why it's a contrived scenario -- it doesn't exist in reality. Besides, the …

> If you end up inheriting money from a distant uncle, you have to pay back. If you inherit money from a distant uncle, your uncle is presumably no longer alive to utilize state pr…

> Medicaid is not "free" there are requirements, but assuming you qualify, there are hidden costs. Like for example. Totally different program (medicaid nursing home care) and not …

> You still have to pay for it. You don't, actually. Medicaid is a de-facto single payer system (with the caveat that it's funded by both federal and state governments).

I can't speak for the entirety of the Europe but from my experience with certain countries in the EU, there is a pervasive culture of avoiding risk at all costs in favor of stabili…

> is 1 really true? we have elections every 2 years for it. how many periods of time have we had no change in control of the senate or the house for 4 2 straight elections? what ab…

1) Congressional leadership tends to change hands less often than presidential. 2) I'd argue that the two powers are separable. The subgroup writing the rules tends to be different…

You don't even need to look as far as Canada to see what single payer healthcare implementation will look like in the US. Hospitals in the US that disproportionately serve populati…

The US has universal healthcare. If you're poor or elderly, you have access government provided insurance. If you're near poverty, you have access to government healthcare subsidie…

There's no reason Congress can't staff their own career professionals.

What makes you think such an amendment would have enough support to pass? Prior attempts at Social Security reform which diverted as little as 15% of assets away from treasuries we…

> Policy-wise, I would like to capital gains reform and strict responsibility for congress when making financial decisions (eg no more "borrowing" from SS/Medicare, pass a budget a…

What happens when the other country isn't willing to sell? Consider a war or other disaster e.g. in the months before the pandemic, China stopped the export of face masks and other…

They can still sell their inventory e.g. impressions and clicks, but they wouldn't run the DSP/SSP (just like other ad supported publishers).

> Amazon promoting its own brands isn't much different from a supermarket offering its own brand items. Apple isn't a monopoly in phones because of Android. And Google's search is …

This isn't an argument over the merits of the ACA. Many of are fine with Universal Healthcare but not with deluding ourselves into thinking that it's a free lunch. It's a statement…

It's very rare to have direct proof of the effect of an economic/regulatory intervention, but luckily, in this case, we do. We've had a decade a survey data that indicates exactly …

> And that is a risk assessment lenders would need to make. This is how all debt works. This is irrelevant as the federal government is the owner of nearly all student debt, which …

Not as contradictory as the speaker is making it out to be. The organization can be poorly managed but still price out competition via a state subsidized business model that would …

> high amount of start-up capital AND high regulatory hurdles AND the low margins Not independent variables. The large wired broadband ISPs already enjoy economies of scale (access…

Building in dense urban areas carries its own set of problems akin to how pushing changes to a live product can be more difficult than hacking one together from scratch. It require…

Big tech has big profit margins. Big telecom services doesn't. Competitors don't enter the industry because there's little money to be made. The only way you make money by starting…

> Not really, Big Tech pays H1Bs competitive salaries That doesn't challenge the argument. Wages are set by supply and demand, expand the supply and wages fall. It doesn't matter i…

US GDP Q1 -1.25% Q2 -9% The US reports annualized decreases.

He was armed. That is not in dispute. See [here]( https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/kenosha-police-union-gives-its-... ). You could also see the knife in his hands in the video and hear…