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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by adrianN on Friday February 21, 2020 @02:40AM (#22381556)
Providing free healthcare, free education and free food to those who need it is quite different from being treated like a child.
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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by TheOtherHobbes on Friday February 21, 2020 @03:33AM (#22381726)
Especially if they end up in a higher tax bracket.

It's not government paternalism that's terrifying, but cultural demonisation and paternalistic contempt for the poor, combined with unthinking adulation of the extremely rich.

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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by honestoHeminway on Friday February 21, 2020 @08:16AM (#22382816)
The winner (re)writes the history, so that the narrative makes one the good guy.
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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by thechao on Friday February 21, 2020 @07:57AM (#22382739)
Doubly so when a large fraction of the people receiving free healthcare, free education, and free food are, in fact, children.
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