re: #355 Racer X

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Thanks!

Yes this could be a recipe for disaster. Like Medicare currently is.

Taiwan could simply raise taxes to pay the increased costs, or offer fewer services. You get what you pay for.

And now that services there are “free” and aplenty, you think the populace will approve of higher taxes and/ or less services?

When we lived in Boston, my wife used to complain about the pigeons that would populate our backyard. One day I caught her throwing bread out there. I asked what she was doing. “Feeding the birds” she replied. I said “well what about the pigeons you’re complaining about”? She said she was feeding the OTHER birds. She hated the pigeons.