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A cut, sure, but the whole fuckin thing? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

everybody pools together money at a much lower individual cost

Another example of this is would be public transport.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Another example of this would be a thousand things: Firefighters, police (not American), education, Healthcare (not American), defense, unemployment, childcare, pensions, roads...

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

defense

I don't believe in socialized nuclear deterrence, which is why I think every red-blooded American should own their own backyard hydrogen bomb.