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How many of these same small towns that will gladly take government subsidies scream “socialism” anytime someone mentions government provided health care, increasing the earned income tax credit, education subsidies etc?


And the people screaming the loudest in my experience will turn out to derive their living from some government directly or indirectly.


All of the states that resisted medicare expansion are seeing their rural hospitals dwindle; so you're not far off.


What’s crazy, is that I would have no problem subsidizing rural America by providing access to transportation, broadband, healthy food options, etc and even farm subsidies for small farms.

But they continuously fight against programs that help other people.


They refused Medicaid (for poor people) expansion. Medicare is for old people.




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