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What if housing and food, education and medical care were all provided for everyone?

FINANCING accounts for over 1/3 of housing costs, so providing housing alone would save Americans trillions in service charges and bank profits. Would you miss all the rushing around, the drama of paying rent and the sadness of falling short? Or could people actually relax and get on to better things?

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1. We would turn into Greece, and it's not sustainable.
2. It would be nice, but it just won't work that way... Or at least not for a couple more decades.
3. Then we'd be taxed into oblivion.
4. I think it's called communism.
5. I don't really understand you point. I mean, WHO would pay for it? "Financing" anything is lawful thievery. You take out a loan for $100,000 and by the time it is all over you have really paid $230,000.
6. And JUST WHO would pay for this? Who is going to pay the doctors, Who is going to pay the farmers, and who is going to pay the construction workers that build the housing? Do you think money grows on trees, or are you one of those liberals that think "Hey, all we have to do is print more money"? Are you willing to work for free so everybody can have these things for free? This is what is wrong with the liberal mind set. They have these wonderful Utopian ideas that fall completely apart in practice. IT CAN'T HAPPEN!!! Who would produce the goods if all their needs were taken care of?
7. It's a beautiful idea, but the real question is how we could do that without completely demotivating everyone. If your house, food, education, and medical care were paid for - what would prevent you from just staying at home all day playing video games? This is, of course, the problem that the USSR ran into. Their solution was to legally mandate everyone to work, and assign everyone to jobs. The problem was that people were getting assigned to jobs they hated and weren't passionate about or good at. Which led to people having no motivation to actually do those jobs. You're basically raising the fundamental question of politics: how can we make sure everyone has housing, food, education, and medical care, works hard at a job they excel at, and supports the society they're part of? No one knows the answer to that.
8. I would become extremely depressed and have nothing to look forward to or try to accomplish. I do not want a life where I have no reason to feel that I have accomplished something. I love feeling like I have accomplished things and just the trying gets me up in the morning If I had nothing to gain, nothing to show for my efforts, I would feel like a fool wasting energy on things, why even bother at all?
9. Couldn't you imagine the nightmare that would be? How hard would it be to move out of an unpleasant neighbor situation? How would one go about enforcing code violations? How run down would that housing be in only a few short years? If you want answers to this, look to where government provided housing is (the projects) and shudder at the prospect.
10. People would have much more money to spend on consumer goods and services, which would create massive demand, driving up production, alleviating unemployment.