George Smallfield

Following richmond politics and happenings

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@Bloke_Baz Every transaction from employees working for a billionaire to those purchasing the product and/or services is voluntary. Regulating being rich out of existence is theft.

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@jaredrhoads Or. Hear me out. If non profits are tax exempt, maybe they should pass on saving by waiving co-pays, do some free care for those in need or some kind of public good. After all, they get billions in tax breaks that directly come out of the pocket of localities.

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@ItsLulu_7 China and Russia before they became capitalist were pretty terrible for the masses. Stalin killed millions. Cuba and North Korea remain places where I’d prefer not to be part of the masses. What true socialist or communist country without capitalism sets a positive example?

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@TiffanyFong Envy?

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@ArthurDavi85332 @SawyerMerritt @globeandmail Who fits better? Edison was not universally loved in his time. His labs used the labor of others to create product in his name. Edison would gamble all his wealth on new ideas when he was already rich and could have lived a life of leisure. Serial entrepreneur too

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@LRNA11 @eu_bike @RoamingNorway By definition wood is renewable. It grows back removing the carbon from the air as it does. Natural gas fireplaces and heating is not renewable and is the common alternative. Newer wood stoves burn pretty clean too. Mine is CA compliant. Natural gas is cleaner.

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@DerrickEvans4WV Some of these have a higher per capital income than us too. Crazy policies paid for by lobbying

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@SawyerMerritt @globeandmail Yes! Love or hate, he has changed the world more than and of his many detractors. If anyone should have a trillion dollars, seems reasonable it’d be the Edison of our time.

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@eu_bike @RoamingNorway So you don’t like renewables? Usually the wood used is waste if not burned or converted to mulch. I’d argue heating use is more green than pretty flower beds.

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@LPNational Well - if people pay them the multi-billion dollar monopolistic non-profit health care systems should pay a higher rate. If not, no taxes for the people either

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@Truth_in_Number @DrDiGiorgio @AlastairMcA30 Crutchfield, P., & Hereth, B. (2025). Beneficial bloodsucking: The ethics of promoting alpha-gal syndrome. Bioethics, 39(7), 726-734.

Next time do a quick search. Good practice for you.

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@MarkWarner @LevarStoney Or hear me out. We should resist all gerrymandering rather than whining when a specific party failed to take power from the people.

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@olsonplanner Isn’t capitalism about finding the true market price and require negotiation? I feel most people that say this are the ones selling something that could easily be discounted, however, do not want to discount it to make maximum profit.

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@DrDiGiorgio Exactly. And unlike any other profession, you can’t own the site to do your work. If doctors could own hospitals, those hospitals would have administrative support instead of administrative roadblocks.

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@elonmusk Yep. It’s the exact problem in healthcare in the US

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@RivianTrackr Well - low mileage EV users are not as beneficial in changing from ICE than high mileage. Might make sense to push them to ICE gently. That said given we were handing out $7500 to buy EVs a couple years ago taxing them higher seems like punishment for compliance.

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@Teslarati I wish my F150 had about 450mi instead of 320. Would make my tow range over 200mi and that would give me more room for error when towing

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@notafinger42 @MikeMumbelz @MarcGoldwein Or hear me out… we could stop subsiding. Everyone else pays slightly more and we pay way less.

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@MikeMumbelz @MarcGoldwein Medicare doesn’t compete or price. Make it legal to mail order international prescriptions and our pricing would be fixed by markets in months. Doesn’t happen as the same people paying politicians to keep prices high are paying to write Medicare and Medicaid rules

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@MarcGoldwein Medicare for all also destroys the private moves toward site neutrality that support the few remaining independent practices. These practices still compete on service and price instead of competing by buying up everyone and lowering service and increasing costs by monopoly power.