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Government more accountable than private charity?

I received this comment on the Jeremy Kyle / Welfare article: AKALucifer wrote: Davy, I don’t think it was the greatest idea to post a video about welfare then write a post about how you think taxes are illegitimate. You were bound to confuse the two issues. I understand the argument that taxes are wrong [...]

The free market is the enemy of charity?

N.B. I am not Davy We received this comment on the blog entry about how a free market makes everyone better off. I made a response to it on the forums, but Davy thinks I should also cross post my reply to the main page. So I’ll just use the magic of delicious copypasta here: I think [...]

The most retarded comment I’ve yet received?

Apparently the mentally ill are discovering the site! In response to an article I wrote where I discussed how it’s a bad thing that 400 people died needlessly in one Staffordshire NHS hospital, Andy Bate chimed in: clearly the dickheads who set up this site either are 1. clinically stupid 2. Work for a private [...]

The NHS kills people & The myth of free market healthcare in America

A user by the name of “bma” left the following comment on the NHS must be completely abolished article, the quote at the beginning is mine from that original page: “Poor people are forced to use the NHS because they cannot opt out of paying taxes, therefore they find it almost impossible to go private [...]

Anarchy is not the absence of rules, but the absence of rulers

Plenth wrote the following comment on the Why more atheists than anarchists article and I thought it warranted an answer everybody could see: Although I understand many of the issues you take with the rule of state, I feel you need to properly outline what you suggest should arise if it were abandoned. What form of [...]

Why ARE decent doctors and nurses so keen to defend the NHS?

Here’s another letter cross posted from this article please leave comments at that page if you have something to add. Elad writes on 11/12/2009 As an employer with the NHS for over 3 years i think i can tell you a few truths about why the system is crap! Lets be honest its not all [...]

Government is unreformable: a reader letter and reply

09/12/2009 Chris made the following comments on the NHS should be abolished article. I’m cross posting this reply as its own post. If you would like to leave comments on this article please do so in the NHS should be completely abolished article. You can also read my original objections to the NHS on that [...]

  

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