The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth

Re:The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth by tptacek on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @07:53AM (#18183956)

You can't call people names on this site and claim to be "appropriately civil". And his point isn't a gotcha argument. The Dutch system might be better, and it's probably cheaper overall given what a terrible deal health care is in the US, but it isn't free, and there's a significant economic tradeoff to it. I don't know why it takes you four paragraphs to try to wiggle out of that observation; it took the other commenter just a few tens of words to make his point.

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Re:The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:11PM (#18188927)

I don't think I did any namecalling.

As far as that goes referring to Danish people as Dutch could also be considered less than civil.

Maybe it takes me a lot of words because I am an especially prolix person, sorry, I hadn't realized how damaging verbosity was to your feelings. I do realize however brevity is the soul of wit so let me cut it down:

Everybody knows that taxes pay for hospital costs in Europe. The context of the conversation was being charged money at the birth of a baby, which people in Europe are not. To say that I paid 0 at the birth of my children was not an untruth but the exact truth. That I have paid taxes in the past and will pay them in the future does not change that.

Given that I was accused of lying, I think I maintained the appropriate level of civility.

Given your hectoring tone here, your insults to my nationality, complaints about my wordcount, and accusations of wiggling I worry I've been too civil.

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