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They pay $34 for burgers. Should their fire department service be free? Opening a new fire department in one of NYC's richest neighborhoods has some of America's pettiest journalists asking silly questions in headlines again.🤡

The article acknowledges the fire department analogy, then blows past it.🤷🏿‍♂️

The solve for "Sometimes when a service like free childcare is available to all, marginalized communities get squeezed out," is "Address that racism."

It's not "Therefore waste incredible amounts of time and money trying to means test something that society should just make available to all.🤡"

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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4ukaj9jxt92unn28r7z42n475c7u6typ2cu8wyur4eqrk67tyz9sve8snd When school lunch programs throw out the "who deserves to get free lunches?" and just provide for every child, the entire program is cheaper due to the lack of an enforcement layer, all...
Kévin ⏚ · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4ukaj9jxt92unn28r7z42n475c7u6typ2cu8wyur4eqrk67tyz9sve8snd jokes here are that in Norway I’ve had many 34€ burgers yet Norwegians also have free health care. So like you can have both at the same time