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Treacle

(2 posts)
2. Ridiculous
Tue Nov 25, 2025, 05:32 PM
Tuesday

I am in Australia. I have not paid income taxes for 13 years and my health care is free to me.
I pay $7.60 each for my two prescriptions monthly.
When I was working and paying income tax, I paid 2% of my income for cradle to grave health care.
But Americans tell me that I live in a socialist hellhole, soon to slide into communism.
Oh, and I don't have freedom because I cannot protect myself from criminals and my government will be rounding us up and marching us into cattle cars and there will be nothing I can do about it.
Where are all those guns now, to overthrow a tyrannical government?
I am a dual Australia/American citizen.

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