Back in the day, kids were given textbooks. Six classes of textbooks cost $600-$800. They get lost, damaged, and cost a fair amount of money to keep up with.
So the proposal is to buy each of the students an ipad, so the cost is $600 times the number of students PLUS the $600-$800 because as we know, the cost of an ebook is the same as the physical book (sometimes even higher). And now you have a piece of electronics floating around that is going to get lost or stolen, and the parents will have to pay $600 for it, as opposed to if a book gets lost or stolen, the parent only has to pay $30 or so. Add to that that an ebook is not reader friendly, and it seems like the whole idea starts at bad and gets worse from there.
So why is your insurance deal so much worse than what everyone else is getting? What's so different about your personal situation to drive your prices dramatically up with millions of people are seeing the opposite?
Well, I am not aware of anyone whose insurance is only going up 3-5% per year and am not aware of anyone for whom their insurance didn't got up by at least 30% when Obamacare happened. And I know a lot of people for whom it doubled or tripled and one case where it went up by a factor of 5.
My situation was that I had a perfectly good Major Medical plan, and then when Obamacare happened, I was no longer able to get that plan, and they put me into a plan which was still Major Medical, but the coverage was not as good and the deductibles were higher, and it cost 4 times as much. I was able to eventually find the cheapest available plan, which was only a little over twice as much as the pre-Obama plan, but it also went up by about 25% the next year.
It's a private plan with regulations to keep the price reasonable because it wouldn't be otherwise.
Right, because my insurance was going up by 10-15% each year, severely outpacing inflation. But thankfully, Obama put a stop to that with the Obamacare plan, which only made it go up 400% the first year and 25% the next year. Those are the only two years of data points so far. I admit there is every possibility that next year, my insurance could drop by a factor of 6 putting it in line with what my insurance formerly was trending.
You think the only people buying $67K cars are rich? Umm, wow.
No, I am well aware that the lower middle class also buy cars like that. However, only the rich can AFFORD cars like that. Back when I had a job, my household income was just about $110k, and I considered an affordable car for my income to be about $25k. People shouldn't be buying cars that cost more than their yearly income. They really shouldn't be buying cars that are even 1/4 of their yearly income.
Honestly, to this day, as books concerned, I do not know the difference between "fiction" and "non-fiction".
Non-fiction is fiction that has been agreed upon by a committee.
Actually, if we drop all of the energy subsidies, your money spent will go WAY up.
Of course, that is not possible because the energy subsidies are coming from somewhere, ie taxes. If the energy subsidies were dropped, the total money spent would be the same. In fact lower because of the "handling charge" that the government gets for taxing you and giving it to the energy companies.
Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say.