• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Let’s see who would benefit from this? Hmm?

    Also, rates will NOT go down as a result of this, I guarantee it. Businesses never return saved money to the customers. They claim prices are high because of theft, but if there were suddenly zero theft, they’d pocket the additional profit, not lower prices. It’s all bullshit. The only thing that lowers prices is competition and regulation. Rich people never give up money willingly, because money = power.

  • TheRealKuni@piefed.social
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    3 months ago

    Oh, I assume you’re going to do that by offering state-sponsored healthcare, thus lowering cost for both drivers and victims! I think that’s a fine idea.

    Oh wait, you’re not just putting excess costs on the victim are you?

  • Sharkticon@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    No she wants to increase the profit margins of insurance companies. Your rates will stay the same or go higher.

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    3 months ago

    You get a way with murder when a cyclist or pedestrian dies by a crash…

  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    It feels to me like Kathy Hochul becomes a new interest’s useful idiot every other month. I don’t know anyone else who’s more frequently someone’s pocket idiot politician besides Eric Adams and Donald Trump. They say she’s politically savvy. I think it’s the opposite, she’s an airhead who doesn’t know how to say no to money and in the grifter political waters of Albany that makes her buoyant. Like a big dumb motorless barge.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    3 months ago

    Cars should be expensive to capture more of their true costs.

    But if you really wanted to bring the cost down, probably removing the profit motive would go farther. Nationalize it.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      probably removing the profit motive would go farther. Nationalize it.

      In Canada, BC and Quebec have public insurance plans, they pay 35-45% less than the “free market” in other provinces.