re: #42 engineer dog

of course they are paid for through taxes, but free thereafter. here we pay taxes and then have to buy our own health insurance and college education, which together will cost an average american family much more than the extra taxes that a comparable german family will pay

Well, yes, but free means you don’t pay for it at all.

Come to think of it, there’s no free anything. Even the cost of Costco samples is figured into the pricing.