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Congrats on your enthusiasm for DIY appliance repair! I must say, however, some of these scenarios rationalizing car dependency are so highly-contrived as to seem desperate. Are you suggesting they're a reasonable justification for a $14K annual public subsidy per household (TFA)?

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How is it highly contrived? Its generic household chores, who does them for you?

> Are you suggesting they're a reasonable justification for a $14K annual public subsidy per household (TFA)?

Yes, i would take those numbers with a grain of salt but yes. If you remove roads and cars neither the goods nor people you hire will get to you.

At that point you are left with just leaving for somewhere else and starting the whole 'defund public infrastructure we rely on' campaign all over again - it's shortsighted at best and borderline malicious.

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