[mindok]

“Free”. Presumably tax payer funded in actuality.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

That’s generally how good governments work yes.

[fooker]

At some point you run out of other people’s money and have bread lines.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

But if you don’t spend money, you will also become a failed state because the infrastructure required to generate value has failed.

[exitb]

So far it looks like we're going to run out of people first.

[UncleMeat]

What? Bread lines are a response to poverty caused by a failure of the market and typically involve institutions giving out free bread using other people's money.

[nec4b]

Could you expand more on how bread lines in Soviet Union were a failure of the market?

[joe_mamba]

We'll get the super wealthy in California, like Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to pay for it. Oh wait, they just left.