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Free Jam: It’s Time to End California’s Law Against Selling Homemade Food
California is seen as the birthplace of the local food movement, but home-based food operations are prohibited. That may be about to change.
Aw, yeah.
I’m 28. My parents’ corporate employer covered me until I was 25 even without the mandate to do so. I went from that to my own employer-provided coverage, had a year of nothing when I left that job, and now I’m on my husband’s employer-provided insurance. All of those had no problem covering everything needed or that I can imagine needing. Not that they were perfect, but I’m healthy so I don’t have big complaints.
But I’m still in favor of Obamacare. Because not everyone is as lucky as I am, and I’m not heartless enough to want them to suffer as a result. We live in too wealthy of a country for people to die and go broke because of stupid health stuff.
I love Obamacare.
That’s called differentiation. You could also call it a perk. You don’t, however, call it ‘luck’.
Treating benevolence as ‘luck’ rather than individual agency is precisely the problem I have with the left. It’s as if no good deed could possibly be the product of choice; only the faceless entity of the government, with its numerous regulations can help people, because apparently there’s something evil lurking within the human soul—no bureaucracy—which makes us selfish to the exclusion of all others’ interests (except, apparently, in the context of the government).
thecheekylibertarian 