I always thought a membership fee is the answer. It would end FReepathons.
“I always thought a membership fee is the answer. It would end FReepathons.”
I doubt that it would be an economic “improvement”. What makes you think so? Wouldn’t the membership fee have to be so pervasive that it would dissuade many from participating?
Right now, people that cannot afford “membership fees” and that are at poverty level still need to be able to read and see the truth that FR provides. But if there’s a fee, they would no longer be able to. I think the true Conservative ideology is what this forum and the owners currently represent. What you are espousing... not so much.
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