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AnnaE said:
It seems it's another topic over his head.
Socialism - a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
The gov't (the community as a whole part) trains people to fight fires. It compensates them. It provides the equipment. It regulates them. It extracts money from the community to pay for it. etc. Socialism.
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Cooperative early form of corporation, pooling of resources what's so hard to understand?
 
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AnnaE said:
It seems it's another topic over his head.
Socialism - a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
The gov't (the community as a whole part) trains people to fight fires. It compensates them. It provides the equipment. It regulates them. It extracts money from the community to pay for it. etc. Socialism.
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What does a fire dept. produce?
 
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Walter sees all economic activity in terms of goods produced. Same mistake the Soviets made. They focussed so much on production (because of Marx), they underinvested in transportation. So their grain rotted in the silos waiting for shipping.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
But taxslave's whole schtick is that he hates taxes.
Again, under his notion of "capitalism," you either pay for fire service or you don't. If you don't and your house catches fire, good luck and maybe a neighbor will donate a bucket.
I hope you understand that at the inception of fire services (about 200 years back), many of them were set up that way. So were many early police forces. When there was a break-in at a shop, the first thing the cops checked was whether the owner was a paying customer. If not, oh well. . .
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Don't know where you get your stupid from. Sucking exhaust pipes on ambulances? I put in many unpaid hours as a firefighter. Pay huge taxes to cover the cost of equipment and training too. Did I mention we voted a $200 a year tax increase to get a much needed replacement fire hall? What I do resent is the amount of money the bureaucraps siphon out of the system to look after us.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Walter sees all economic activity in terms of goods produced. Same mistake the Soviets made. They focussed so much on production (because of Marx), they underinvested in transportation. So their grain rotted in the silos waiting for shipping.
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Where it failed is that no one was paid to give a sh*t, the grain belonged to the socialist Gov. the workers got their pittance whether they delivered the grain or not, may as well sit in the shade and drink vodka it paid the same.
 
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Capitalism is busy saving us all from coronavirus!

Thank God for capitalism.
 
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AnnaE said:
I agree, it probably won't come from a socialist country. It just might come from China, though.
https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/top-ten-countries-research-science-twenty-nineteen
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China isn't really a socialist country anymore, more of a totalitarian Gov. all business has Gov. as a partner not as an administrator, where they share in profits. Workers are paid wages and pay taxes on salary, goods and services, much like our current Gov. is trying to structure Canada, new resource and major infrastructure projects have to buy off the Gov. first.
 
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Well, looks like them rough, tough capitalists in the airline industry are snivelling for a government bailout.

Cuz thet thar's cap'talism, Murkan style!
 
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Passengers funded cargo and mail Freight rates will either skyrocket or tank. Ebay and Amazon suspending operations would fix that issue in a hurry.
 
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