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I'm sympathetic, but you have to consider free interstate travel and economies of scale. A local or state government can't provide healthcare or a military, be
by refenestrator 6y ago
I'm sympathetic, but you have to consider free interstate travel and economies of scale.
A local or state government can't provide healthcare or a military, because then everyone else freerides. Just live in the low-tax state and move if you get sick, or bank on them if there's a threat.
Certain things depend on the feds not because they'll do it well, but because they'll do it less badly.
- pythonslayer 6y ago>...and move if you get sick Good one. How much lower can you go?
- DC1350 6y agoHealthcare in Canada is the responsibility of provinces and each province has their own independent system. You need to be a resident of a new province for a few months before you can switch to a different provider. Healthcare doesn’t need to be federal
- Waterluvian 6y agoTo an extent it's regional too. I don't actually interact with Health Canada or Health Ontario, I interact with Southwestern Public Health when I look up info, get a flu vaccine, look at regional covid info, etc.
- refenestrator 6y agoI guess I'm overindexing on the bootstrapping problem as an American. Once you're there, it could be localized.