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I don't know what to say

and that's all right

yeah that's all right

yeah that's okay

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I don't know.

Hello everyone, Hello everyone,

welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Conover, and look,

there's this voice that pipes up whenever the conversation

turns to solving big societal problems to any policy proposal no matter how

logical no matter how necessary no matter how well, no matter how necessary, no matter how well thought through,

this voice replies like it just heard an 11 year olds planned to buy a mountain bike.

The voice says,

Sounds nice, but how are you going to pay for it? You've heard this voice. This is the

Cheap Dad voice, let's call it that and the Cheap Dad voice is a permanent

feature of America's political conversation. Let's try it out. Let me give you an example. Say we

need to transform our nation's health care system because it provides worse care

at a higher cost than any other rich country and people here are dying as a result. So you come up with a plan to fix that,

you advance it, and someone will respond, Mark my words, sounds nice but how you're going to pay for it?

Or mention that, you know, it might be necessary to continue an expansion of unemployment benefits during an unprecedented pandemic.

You know someone's going to say, sounds nice, but how you're going to pay for it?

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