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Originally Posted by crockett
Man who helped save family from a crashed car gets billed $150 bucks because the paramedics checked his pulse and gave him a bottle of water..
Calif. man helps save trapped family, gets $143 bill - CBS News
This is the libertarian dream come true, no free rides you have to pay for everything!!! Bravo this should teach other heroes there are no free rides on the tax payers dime!! This libertarian dream is seconded only to that fire dept that watched a house bUrn down because the owner didn't pay a $200 fee ahead of time..
It's time people stop feeling entitled to free emergency care on the tax payers dime! |
Listen up statist..
First, only the state (government) could get away with charging $150 for a quick drive, bottle of water, and pulse-checking because of that whole state-protected monopoly thing they have going on. You know how monopolies are bad? Yeah, all of fucking government and their services are monopolies.
Absent of the state, we'd have competition, therefore much cheaper prices and better service / quality.
That's why government is synonymous with inefficient, corrupt, and wasteful.
Second, your snarky tone seems to suggest that you believe you're entitled to the property of others just because you may get yourself in a jam. Well listen up, kiddo, life shouldn't have to change for you because you think other people owe you something.
Your decisions are yours to own, not the rest of society.
Third, in a stateless society, all of the various insurances you're whining about would be absolutely dirt cheap, to the point at which the most poor could afford them. It wouldn't be an issue like you're making it out to be. Right now, under your beloved state/nation-state, we can't have that because of the millions of laws, regulations, red tape, cronyism and state-protected monopolies.