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You can't get cheap healthcare, but then you don't tend to get crappy healthcare either. How long's the wait for an appointment with the doctor? Do operations get cancelled due to A&E bed-blocking? Do you get flung onto a ward packed with jakeys and junkies and your care instructions not cared about? ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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mentalboy wrote: | mpd72 wrote: |
How much is health insurance, 7 figures?
Are you telling us that if you needed a tooth out, you'd do it yourself, or are you lying about being able to afford insurance because you don't like Trump? |
A basic package for me costs a fortune |
The average with no state subsidy is around...
Quote: | Premiums for individual coverage averaged $321 per month |
So, around 4% of a six figure joint salary, which is taxed a lot less than the UK.
Swings and roundabouts. We pay it via tax, you pay it via insurance. ____________________ TZR250 2MA road, TZR250 1KT road, TZR250 2MA race, TDR250, YZF-750R Boost colours.
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With the shinannigans that go on with vehicle insurance providers would you actually want your life in their hands?
I suppose BUPA is a similar thing but when I had my company BUPA cover I don't remember there being a load of caveats or exclusions.
Obviously, the devil you know and all that but now, being old and with a heart problem, I'm pretty pleased to have the NHS, warts and all.
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mpd72 wrote: |
The average with no state subsidy is around...
Quote: | Premiums for individual coverage averaged $321 per month |
So, around 4% of a six figure joint salary, which is taxed a lot less than the UK.
Swings and roundabouts. We pay it via tax, you pay it via insurance. |
Don't forget to factor in 10% tax deduction from wages for FICA and Medicare, which I am not eligible for until I have paid forty quarters of tax (ie ten years full employment) - cos immigrant innit. And having paid for some jabs at a Social health clinic ( at about 60 bucks a throw it's cheaper than my quack) I can tell you that I'd prefer a trip to Torquay hospital anytime, the place was fucking hanging and stacked.
Presumably you still only get walloped for 11% NI?
A living wage here is considered to be $15/HR or $31k a year, we'd be stuffed earning 62k here. Six figures sounds nice but I'd prefer to be earning it in Devon.
No obligatory holiday pay either, my boss pays me five days a year anything else is unpaid.
Our cheap four bed rental last year was $1600/month, in a rough town (top 3% in the US for violent crime), head a bit further South to Sarasota and rentals that size start at 2k a month.
Anyhow enough moaning, I'm off to work now. Sucks having to wear shorts for more than 300 days of the year. ____________________ Make mine a Corona. |
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The God Emperor is coming for your guns, to the rage of Senators McShooty, and the confusion and distress of the legacy media.
Like with a lot of President (still feels good) Trump's actual policies, if you strip the attribution, they sound a lot like common sense.
The one about thuh pohlees (which in Murca can mean a shitkicker with a badge) just flat out seizing shooters from folk without due process is guaranteed to get the gun nuts frothing at the ejection port. Should be a good period for gun sales. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Rogerborg wrote: | The God Emperor is coming for your guns, to the rage of Senators McShooty, and the confusion and distress of the legacy media.
Like with a lot of President (still feels good) Trump's actual policies, if you strip the attribution, they sound a lot like common sense.
The one about thuh pohlees (which in Murca can mean a shitkicker with a badge) just flat out seizing shooters from folk without due process is guaranteed to get the gun nuts frothing at the ejection port. Should be a good period for gun sales. |
Did Obama get anywhere with gun reforms? I imagine that'll trigger a major conflict if shitlord Trump manages to:
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M.C wrote: | Did Obama get anywhere with gun reforms? |
In a way. He strengthened gun ownership rights.
They might conceivably ban "assault rifles", again, as a sop to the saps who are scared of black.
https://i.imgur.com/iAqjLOR.png
Same receiver (the parts that's legally the gun in the US), same cartridges (not particularly powerful), same RoF, same muzzle velocity, same murderkills.
Only one of them terrorscares Sally Schoolrun though. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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M.C wrote: | Did Obama get anywhere with gun reforms? I imagine that'll trigger a major conflict if shitlord Trump manages to |
The merest whiff of gun reform sees sales of guns go up, so whatever Obama said, did, wanted to do, merely increased the sale of guns!
The orange man child's gun reform ramblings are already forgotten as he's already bumbled his way into a trade/tariff war.
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Suntan Sid wrote: | Coincidentally, trump special advisor, Carl Icahn, sold all $31M of his stock ,in a steel related company, the previous week! |
Ex advisor. Should have kept him on board, he seems great at predicting the stock market. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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How would you go about removing the 300,000,000 guns in the USA from its law abiding citizens and its criminals? Creative and concrete suggestions welcomed. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Outlaw the sale of ammunition!
Should slow 'em down a bit! |
Would it though? No one knows how much ammo is in circulation in the US and that stuff doesn't go off. I for instance still shoot old mil-surp .303 through my No.4 which has 1950's headstamps. Goes bang fine and plenty accurate enough to give someone a bad day out to 300yds.
It's the same in the US. The place is swimming in ammo, 12 Ga, .22lr, .223, .30-06, .308, russian milsurp 7.62x39. Billions, maybe as many as 100s of billions of rounds. Even if you stopped all imports today and made it illegal to sell to joe public, it wouldn't run out for, I don't know, 50 years? Plus you only need to source 50 rounds to do a pretty good school shooting if the mood takes you.
Throw in the panic buying that would set in with crazy 'preppers' at the slighest hint of a ban, the lucrative import of the stuff that goes on illegally, and people with piles of components to reload ammo at home, and it won't solve the issue in our lifetimes, if at all. ____________________ CBT Acquired: 09/07/2015
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asta1 wrote: | Suntan Sid wrote: |
Outlaw the sale of ammunition!
Should slow 'em down a bit! |
Would it though? No one knows how much ammo is in circulation in the US and that stuff doesn't go off. I for instance still shoot old mil-surp .303 through my No.4 which has 1950's headstamps. Goes bang fine and plenty accurate enough to give someone a bad day out to 300yds.
It's the same in the US. The place is swimming in ammo, 12 Ga, .22lr, .223, .30-06, .308, russian milsurp 7.62x39. Billions, maybe as many as 100s of billions of rounds. Even if you stopped all imports today and made it illegal to sell to joe public, it wouldn't run out for, I don't know, 50 years? |
Hence why they should have done it 20 or 30 years ago. But they won't, they'll continue to have mass shootings and wonder why it keeps happening |
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M.C wrote: | Jmoan wrote: | Why would they be thick for refusing to give up their constitutional rights, they aren't british you know. It will take more than "think of the political teenagers children" to do that. |
Did they have AR15s 200 years ago? |
Did King George III's imperialist boot-boys have them?
Jmoan wrote: | There were also changes to firearm laws setting a stupidly low powered definition of a firearm. |
1J is lethal barreled, which is comically low, and on the face of it makes all airguns and indeed paintball markers firearms. Thanks to some effective lobbying, they excepted airsoft guns with surprisingly sensible energy limits. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 53 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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