I was at a dinner last night with some of my folks’ conservative friends in the US (I’ve lived in Ireland for over 20 years). They were asking about our government run health service when one cut in that it’s not free—it’s prepaid before you use it with your taxes. She said it was the same with cheaper university fees.
So she doesn’t like state services because everyone pays for them whether they use them or not? Kind of like…insurance.
Earlier, she was telling me how cheap her grandson’s university degree was going to be in Australia—much cheaper than it would have been in the US.
I have no words…