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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Steve203 ⎊❂🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Medicare Buy-In
Date: 08/18/26 10:57 AM
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There are too many groups (and not just PE "ticks" or health insurance companies) that would be made materially worse off by the move.

Oh yes. Think of all those poor railroad brakemen, who were put out of work by George Westinghouse.
/sarcasm

Plan Steve is the most gradual phase in I can think of. The alternative is the status quo, where Proles take it up the rear, paying for massive, redundant, unproductive, bureaucracies, that do nothing but increase cost.

(if you ever see "Current Wars", there is a scene at the start, where a train stops to offload some people who will be attending a demonstration by Edison. On the side of the locomotive is the air compressor, with "WABCO" (Westinghouse Air Brake Company) clearly visible on it.)

Steve
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