Do people really believe that free stuff is really "free"?

[exitseven]

We have had politicians that have been promising free public transportation, free supermarkets, medicaid for all, and other free stuff. Do people think the free stuff pops out of thin air or maybe they just do not wonder where it comes from as long as it comes.

[FunkyMonkee]

The really stupid people do!! The ones like my aunt who think you get a million dollars and a new car for free with no consequences, even when they make you repeatedly pay taxes on your prizes before you get them!! Yeah, she was a Biden supporter and Trump hater!!

Funny how all these losers HAVE to have musical guests to entice people to listen to their fucking retarded speeches!! Trump never had to do that!!

[exitseven]

Good point. Kamala had to pay people to show up at her events. She paid Beyonce several million dollars to show up and she did not even sing.

[FunkyMonkee]

Exactly!! She hired several tour buses to go to each event loaded with the people she paid to come to them!! She had a caravan of her own audience!!

[OlderAndWiser]

"Free" has a mesmerizing appeal only to low information voters! The rest of us know better.

[OlderAndWiser]

Thanks for MHO!

[Chazmatazz269]

I have a theory. Idiots and *ssholes ruin everything. The idiots have no clue. The *ssholes know but just don’t care.
As with all things, you have a mix of both ruining our economy. Deadbeats who have no idea where their handouts are coming from and criminals who know, but keep ripping off hardworking taxpayers anyway. I don’t care for either. Every supportive entitlement should be contribution-based. If you or your immediate family didn’t put in, then you can’t get anything out of it. Full stop. Let the deadbeats get help from their enabling family and friends, or die trying. We need to start culling the weak and dysfunctional anyway. Good riddance.

[Danzigdawson]

No one believes in free stuff, dumbass. Smarter people believe in getting astronomical amounts of money back from the hoarding, parasitic billionaires to finance a better society.

You're stupid when you believe that tax cuts for the rich and for yourself do not cost anything... and that's a key aspect of the mouth-breathing conservative thinking.

That and whining about "socialists who want free stuff" while conservatives claim out loud all the time that they all deserve to be at the pinnacle of society (and to be rewarded accordingly with privilege, supremacy, honors) because of their insignificant —and more often than not— damaging, collective contribution to society.

You're all scum and it's about time you knew your place.

[DonaldDarko]

Communists aren't people.

[exitseven]

Somebody missed a nap

[Danzigdawson]

@exitseven @DonaldDarko I wasn't writing this for your benefit, worthless pieces of human garbage. It's way above your level of intelligence. Have some dignity and quit humiliating yourselves with your lame 3-word replies.

[exitseven]

I don;t know, I just think that myself and others like me have worked hard to get what we have and just because a group of sad losers were too lazy and stupid to do the same that I am somehow obliged to support them.

[Danzigdawson]

@exitseven That's the conservative equivalent of the "snowflake". Everyone who has a job works hard. You're not special and your breed just can't accept that. Unless you've been enslaved or forced to work to death in a concentration camp, you have worked exactly as hard as anybody else who has ever held a job in post-war history... and usually, the less you're paid, the harder your work and the harsher your life is. The more you're paid, the less time you spend actually working, the easier your life is and the more free things you get. Everybody loves to brown-nose rich assholes.

But let's come back to you. First of all, it's pretty clear that you're stupid to a point where you've become a nuisance to society. You owe society for all the damage you've done by being so stubbornly dumb. Secondly, I don't care if you make 100K, 300K or even a million a year: you're not bankrolling the US treasury. You'll never even come close to it. In a normal financial context, the US would be just fine without your insignificant contribution.

So take off your stupid self-made crown. Who the fuck said that you're so damn important and essential to the US economy that you can even afford to call others "lazy" and "losers". You're a loser, stupidseven. You don't even realize it. In an actual meritocracy, you'd be lucky to wash the dishes in a dinner for a living.

[exitseven]

No we are not special, we just do not mooch off of everyone else.

[DonaldDarko]

Lazy commies want a free ride!

[Danzigdawson]

@DonaldDarko Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem instead.

[DonaldDarko]

You toke that weed, you get so high. You're cognition goes without saying good by.

[purplepoppy]

Over here bus travel is free for everyone over 60 with plans to extend it to under 21. Everyone gets free health care and free prescription medicines, you can also get free non prescription medication at pharmacies under the common ailment scheme for about 30 everyday illnesses. You can also get free tampons and condoms.

The thing is we know it's not really free, the money comes from other places it's we just don't care and think the benefit outweighs the hidden cost. I'm happy to pay for old people free transport if it means less cars on the road travelling at half the speed limit.

As for free health care most of it goes the on very young children or the very old, I don't expect them to pay and like most feel that moral duty falls on those working.

[sawno]

Certain things are actually free especially in the software world. For those developers the joy is you enjoying what they make.

Its all passion projects, and some of those passion projects even need to be paid monthly but are paid entirely by the owner.

I know this very well myself.

[BadApple69]

It’ll piss people off on here but all politicians lie. Trump is the best at doing what he says.
Democrats are the worst.
Has anyone noticed democrats don’t say what they are going to do but they say they will fight Trump and undo everything Trump has done. Mamdani was different. He promised everything the young leftist wanted to hear…. And has and will do nothing that he said.

[goaded]

https://www.nyc.gov/content/100days/pages/

[Iron_Man]

I’ve gotten free lunches before for free? Dairy Queen messed up my milkshake when I was a teenager and this girl was giving me a hard time about it not wanting to refund my milkshake, but then she looked into my blue eyes. Then She said Aww look at those blue eyes. Then she gave it to me for free

[midnightmoon05]

There was a time when I was young and naive and received “free” things.
now I learned someone paid for it.

I don’t agree with giving out free… or receiving.

when one works hard to get something… they appreciate it

[Lliam]

Funny how there is always money for raising the military budget or paying Israel but we don't care about our citizens. We have socialism for corporations and dog-eat-dog, consumer capitalism for the masses who get milked but receive no benefits.
Our priorities are all F'd up.

[exitseven]

If we did not have adversaries we would not need the military. If we had no military we would be slaves of the chinese.

[Lliam]

Who suggested having NO military? But do we need bases all over the world and do we need to be attacking countries that never threatened to attack us?
And why do we need to keep giving the rogue state of Israel $billions?

[exitseven]

yes , there is a lot of waste and fraud at the pentagon. It was no coincidence Elon Musk aged out of DOGE just s hje was getting to the pentagon

[AviatorTom]

Unfortunately, too many people don't understand basic economics. There are many who think money grows on trees, or government just prints it, meaning when they are told something is free, they actually believe it...

Until the free stuff starts costing them money, higher taxes and fees, and fewer freedoms.

[Ariesman81Nshiiit]

But we all know you can't get orange juice from a turnip. Which is why the founders had the foresight to not let dependents vote for public policy. Because when given the choice, they would vote for personal gain over the good of the Union.

[NaultD]

Free at the point of service like how the whole civilized world does. We're half way there withEmergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). Enacted by Congress in 1986.

the only thing more expensive is our current half ass system.

[NaultD]

This employer health insurance is no different then sell your soul to the company store.

https://youtu.be/RRh0QiXyZSk?si=kBE1fYGrpNkZWknc

[jshm2]

You don't understand "free" either. You think "free speech" is only your speech, and no one else's.

You also don't understand how economics and taxation works.. So think letting a Trump presidency steal and waste tax money for free, is a good thing.

Whereas using that tax money for buses, healthcare, and better infrastructure would be a better use. for people instead.

[sage2021]

There's a very old saying:

"Lunch is never free"!

[TrueConfection]

I was always told, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch!” So true!!!

[SeekerOfTruth007]

When population was much lower, you could go hunting, without needing a license, and harvest a Deer and feed a family for months... for basically free.

The only reason stuff costs so much of this nonsense we call "money" is because world population is unrealistically high, due to "ten kids having ten kids for ten generations".

[BCRanger10]

I'm sure they do, but if they do, they don't know how reality works.

[Twalli]

It's not free beyond the fact that YOU aren't paying for it. At least, that's what you think. Taxes being higher could probably be the reason why it is free at the time you purchase it. Universal healthcare in the countries that have it isn't free. They don't bill you; your taxes are just higher to pay for it.

[RavVid]

I consider free stuff is free if you pay for it.

[DryGermanGuy]

See, that’s why it’s so important to use precise language. It’s not „free“ anything, it’s publicly-funded something or at least public something. You want to argue against our public universities, public transportation or public healthcare?

[Ariesman81Nshiiit]

When it comes to the socialist party, you have the people promising the world, and those that believe it.

[DonaldDarko]

Some of them do. They believed in Santa as kids. Then this other guy with a big beard comes along and tells them they can get free shit all year round not just Christmas. You'd think they would grow out of fairy tails but nope.

[CaptainSmartass]

Apparently so. But then again, these leftoids have pretty low IQs...

Simples...

[strateguy632]

they hope it will be free. but never learn! is new york bus free? will they stop voting democrats?

[NathanDavis]

it will be as free as much as the Trump Phone will be made in America...

[beefcakebradybatson]

You'd have more things citizens in other first-world countries take for granted, but you've been brainwashed to cozen the overlords at your expense.

[noohair]

Do you work for free? I ask that question when people say they want something for free...

[jamesgoldman]

They do because they are not educated correctly

[Dargil]

Oligarchy runs the world.

[Mike_Hum]

The idiots do, 100%