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      1 year ago

      That isn’t contradictory with what that person said.

      Things have costs, even things that are free at point-of-service. Often, those costs are worth it. It’s not as if they said that any use of tax money for any purpose is a horror.

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        Oh shit, blast from the past. Haven’t heard this libertarian talking point in a while.

        Every time someone gets a free beer, the libertarians point out that there is no such thing as free beer. Except that’s not true: They don’t mind free beer usually, it’s almost always some social program that’s “not free”. Hey guess what: Everybody already knows that vaccines do not grow on trees. No need to explain this. Libertarians just hate social programs because they are selfish pricks rugged individuals.

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      This might be a wild take, but your taxes shouldn’t be subject to profiteering just because it’s to save lives. They should instead, at a minimum, be subject to reasonable price caps to combat racketeering.

      Edit: Especially when Canada is only vulnerable to it in the first place thanks to neoliberal policies privatizing Connaught Labs, gutting their research and quality, yet still somehow increasing prices.