re: OT: GSB Primary/Political Stuff (Vote in bold)

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This is why cutting healthcare from $3 trillion to $1.5 trillion by mandating what businesses can charge who are still subject to free market overhead costs isn't possible. This is why socialism and free market capitalism can't coexist. This is why countries that try this are failing miserably to provide quality services and are deficit spending themselves into debt oblivion.

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That right there is how socialism becomes communism. Socialism will eventually realize that it cannot control the cost, price, quality, quantity, etc of an end item or service unless it can also control all inputs that go into its manufacture or offering. The Socialist response to ineffectual control is to becomes Communist.

Communism is basically a last ditch attempt at trying to hold onto what were originally only Socialist ideas. It always fails and usually pretty damn hard.