And yet if you come down with a grave illness that forces you to stop working, you won’t have to worry about being unable to pay for your healthcare plan, unlike Americans. You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how insurance works if you complain that your money goes to helping others. That’s the point: everybody pays a bit in order to create a pool of money for unexpected large expenses of any insured in the future. It’s basic risk management. I’m Canadian too, so I know that our system isn’t perfect, but I’ll take waiting a while to see specialists for non-urgent issues over having to budget every doctor visit.
I’m amazed at how so many Americans demonize socialism and use nationalized healthcare as an example of how bad they are. Oh no! Affordable healthcare that won’t bankrupt you if you get sick! Won’t somebody please think of the corporations!?
I own a car in addition to a bicycle and I have mortgage, so I pay all the applicable taxes. A large part of those taxes I also paid when I didn’t own a car (city taxes for example). I think the fair solution would be to make cyclist pay for the infrastructure that’s specifically for cyclists (the tiny number of bike path and the minimal maintenance required) and car drivers pay for their infrastructure (the thousand of miles of highways and bridges). I’m not sure the drivers will save money in that scheme however.
As for insurance, you guys realize that it’s to protect you from unexpected expenses right? It’s not a tax or some sort of punishment. Cyclists don’t have specific insurance to pay because they’re less likely to cause expensive damage. What’s more, where I live bicycle accidents are covered by home insurance, so cyclists do pay for insurance.
I love how you complain that cyclists should always follow the law, then also insist that they do something that’s against the law (ride on the sidewalk).
And to get back to the strip, if your car is literally within spitting distance of a bicycle, you’re driving way too close.
Your understanding of communism or Canadian politics is really poor if you think Canada implements 9 of those. Then again, you think that Democrats are a leftist party when they’re, at most, centrist when compared to the rest of the world. l guess my advice to you would be to broaden your horizons, take the time to actually understand how the world works outside of American borders (from unbiased sources) and stop repeating extreme right nonsense.
Just so you know, there are pieces of software that use “genetic algorithms” to solve very complex problems. They are based on the theory of evolution to evolve a working solution from initially random data. They work well — I’ve coded some. Look it up..“I don’t believe in magic.” Thanks for the laugh! I guess it’s not magic, it’s “miracles”, which are completely different.
And yet if you come down with a grave illness that forces you to stop working, you won’t have to worry about being unable to pay for your healthcare plan, unlike Americans. You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how insurance works if you complain that your money goes to helping others. That’s the point: everybody pays a bit in order to create a pool of money for unexpected large expenses of any insured in the future. It’s basic risk management. I’m Canadian too, so I know that our system isn’t perfect, but I’ll take waiting a while to see specialists for non-urgent issues over having to budget every doctor visit.