If you're paying for it, how is it free? It's already taken under threat and force in many countries.

It's not education, it's slave training and indoctrination. Money is stolen from us to pay for our own subjugation. Those who opt out are viewed as weirdos.

Mainstream health service is about keeping us sick, not healthy.

So no thanks to all that.

What the question implicitly asks is "Do you trust the government to properly manage education and healthcare with your hard earned money"

Naw. I've seen enough. They can start by fixing a pothole and not overpaying and under delivering on the costs, quality and schedule of fixing that pothole, if they want to make their case for more taxation.

im pretty done with continuing the welfare state experiment, personally.

It’s a Big Yes. I already do and it’s effective and really useful, eduction should be 100% free for all. Wouldn’t change it, at least from my experience

I am a doctor by profession, I practice medicine and teach medicine. I am a family doctor, so I basically help people who want to avoid getting sick, although I also cure those who can and want to.

I do this in a country where medicine is supposedly a free service, but nothing could be further from the truth.

You go to the hospital sick, you don't have to pay to receive medical attention, but you will have to wait a while, there are almost no doctors to attend to you, those who haven't left the country have looked for jobs that pay MUCH BETTER. After you manage to get care, there are no medicines to treat your illness, but if you look somewhere and pay for it, then you have it, and so on. In short, you have to pay to be able to receive medical attention and treatment, but medical attention is free. Don't try to understand something that happens in a world where the predominantly logical thing is the totally absurd.

Oh! Another thing, education here, more of the same.

And don't think that paying for education and health care will make things better. I've experienced it before and it's also a lie.

We have 'free' healthcare in the UK. It sucks extraordinarily and I avoid it like the plague. When I need something done, I go abroad and pay privately.

Exactly

No I’d rather not be taxed but pay for my own education and health care

Indoctrination & forced illnesses?

No, never, that leads to enslavement & forced medical experiments.

I am not sure the words taxation and free belong in the same sentence.

This question boils down to comparing how much you pay in taxes vs how much would you pay for education and health if the gov did not subsidise those.

For poor people that pay little taxes the answer is yes.

Very astute question.

The real question isn't about how to pay for it. It's do you want a government monopoly or competition where there is an incentive structure connected to the customer?

There's no free lunch.

There’s got to be a balance somehow.