If I pay for half and the government pays the other half for me, I’ve gotten half of my premium free of charge. You can call it “subsidized” but that’s just another way of saying “partially free”.

Do you not understand that the ACA greatly expands Medicaid and those that receive it get it for free?

But the author’s last line - “that’s how insurance works” - is completely wrong because (a) if this were run by insurers, people with pre-existing conditions would likely not be covered at all and would be in a separate risk pool; (b) kids would likely still get kicked off of parent’s plans at 18 or 21; (c) no…

I’m saying that the author’s last line - “that’s how insurance works” is idiotic. That’s not how insurance works. If people on Medicaid had insurance, they wouldn’t be on Medicaid to begin with, right?

In the ACA, millions of people get coverage for free, which is the opposite of how insurance works.

Well, Fox & Friends doesn’t even pretend to be an unbiased news show, just as Rachel Maddow doesn’t pretend to be an unbiased news show either.

The Yakima area is 40% Latino, as are many parts of rural, agricultural Washington State.

But, again, beyond the border shouldn’t that be the job of the police?

DUI and speed traps are by the police.

I don’t think the law is a good one either. It annoys me when I have to go through these checkpoints too. Just as it annoys me when I go through a DUI checkpoint, or get pulled over by the police for a bullshit speed trap.

Unfortunately in the Trump era

The point is, she shouldn’t have to produce her papers to prove she’s allowed to travel within the USA.

You rarely have to even show anything on these inland checkpoints in the Southwest. Checking IDs is actually kind of beside the point.

How can you claim his design/idea is terrible, with no evidence

If he wants to blow his money trying to prove out something not economically viable in the long-run, so be it.

If he wants to spend his money trying to prove a technology is viable, let him.

With a couple of exceptions—Singapore, for example—we all live in sovereign states.

Yes, let’s government and internet commenters decide which independently-wealthy individuals can try to start business on their own in the name of protecting the establishment.

Take away his fucking guns and ban him from ever owning one ever again (and make him pay for the truck, in full).

Well, sorry for you in Seattle I guess. The light rail line here in downtown Phoenix took just three years and 9 months (March 2005 - December 2008) from shovel to opening, is 20 miles long, and has 28 stations. It was completed on-time and on-budget.