• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    The main reason why it exists is to provide jobs. The number of people who work at the TSA at every airport in every state…no representative wants to cut those jobs.

    • AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      I fucking hate that this is a thing. “We can’t stop doing this useless and/or detrimental thing, look at all the work it makes for other people to do!!!” Absolutely bonkers that it’s just a standard political argument.

        • vonxylofon@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          It shouldn’t exist? I’d like to see you pay for your medical expenses out of pocket.

          P. S. No, I am not American.

          • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            Yeah I guess the kind of Single Payer model I prefer can be conceptualised as “insurance.” But it feels more like health care is taxpayer funded. The similarity to insurance is just details for the detail nerds.