SF has dedicated commercial loading zones, for large deliveries. (Or, for some of the larger buildings, they just have an underground or partially underground loading dock.) For things like Uber, yes, one would need to find a parking spot, not park in an active lane of traffic¹. If either are insufficient, people are free to lobby for more, where they are needed.

(¹and as bike lanes are not wide enough to accommodate a vehicle, you're partially blocking a car lane, too.)

Nashville's airport suffered gridlock yesterday: https://fox17.com/news/local/what-caused-the-over-14000-vehi...

At least with my CU, mobile check deposit is the only function I need a mobile phone for; everything else is equally available on the web interface. (I could go to a physical branch, in lieu of mobile, I suppose.)

For starters, $1–$3 probably wouldn't cover the ingredients for most dishes. A single bell pepper, for example, is ≈$2. Ground beef for 1 is ≈$4.

… I, and everyone I know, can cook? Do cook. There's no way to eat out every night…?

> it's a bad deal,

Not necessarily: I gain the ability to switch insurances (imagine, for example, a "free market" where insurance has to compete…), job losses or changes don't affect my insurance, etc. Actual competitive pressure and lower switching costs should, in theory, drive the price down.

Also, IIRC, insurance premiums paid with post-tax dollars are deductible, so they're not really post-tax. However, that deduction is part of the itemized deduction — while currently most people are not itemizing (as they do not have enough itemized deductions to hit the "it is worth it" threshold), my napkin math says that throwing HC premiums in there — since HC is so damn expensive — tips the scale / breaks the threshold for basically any normal income level.

But this is also an "imagine if" thread. Imagine if we made healthcare premiums outright deductible to alleviate the problem you've identified?