TownieDeac
words are futile devices
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This is why Bernie Bros. are insufferable.
type in bernie sanders middle class tax, and americans for tax reform is like 8 of the top 10 links!
This is why Bernie Bros. are insufferable.
Medicare for All means no premiums or copays for everyone!
Anyway here's to the only adult in the room! Let's hear it from the big serious man himself:
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FANTASTIC! I am sure that something like that will actually come about as opposed to say, a compromise that is called "Medicare For All" and that actually resembles Medicare.
type in bernie sanders middle class tax, and americans for tax reform is like 8 of the top 10 links!
lol spoken like someone who has never gotten free healthcare before
When is it time for Biden to drop out and throw his support behind Sanders or Warren?
Medicare for All means no premiums or copays for everyone!
Probably not when he is at/near the top of the polls. When is it Sanders' or Warren's time?
I skipped that one.
I remembered hearing a sound bite of Bernie mentioning raising taxes and Googled it to make sure I got it right. I didn’t get the number from Grover.
Instead of having a discussion with someone who you likely have few differences with, you just throw out the Norquist line.
Does Santa pay for it?
A tax is no different than paying a premium.
Are we advocating TRICARE for All or Medicare for All? Most people with means who are on Medicare have supplemental plans and pay significant sums out of pocket for those benefits. Hell, even a large number of veterans opt to pay into a health insurance system and for obvious reasons.
If you all believe that "Middle Class" (I know we have learned in this thread that there is no such thing as the Middle Class in America, but just humor me) people in America are going to have no option whatsoever to supplement whatever minimum health care the government provides under a M4A platform, and/or that those same people are going to have such an option but will nevertheless overwhelmingly refuse to elect that option despite the means to supplement, then you are fucking crazy.
This is pie in the sky shit. Improve it, by all means. It is not fair. I work with people with crippling health issues and mounting medical bills every day. Navigating the health care industry is awful, and totally unfair for a number of people. Raise taxes. Fine. Do some means testing. Fine. But you are just being intellectually dishonest (or you just aren't very smart) if you think this is achievable as "the next step." It isn't. You shouldn't advocate for it because it makes it seem like practical improvements are half-measures and that makes those "half-measures" fall by the wayside.
The US does not and never has worked for everyone. It works for more people today than it typically has. There was a stretch from the 50s-70s where you could argue it worked for a higher percentage of people, but you might have to exclude every black southerner from that analysis, and you would have to just assume that women who didn't work were June Cleavers and happily attached to the Father who knew best. We have a fundamentally flawed system that, for as long as it lasts, is going to be fundamentally flawed.
Totally agree with this, in theory. It would be great to root out corruption in the government and get things back to...
Wait, in practice, there has always been rampant corruption in our government and in the private sector. That was true with a nation of 20 million people, and will always be true in a nation of over 300 million.
I find this a little strange. Do you not think it is possible change the way things are done, even a little bit, to limit that corruption? Of course it will never be perfect, but I think there's a lot of low hanging fruit out there that could make a big difference. Warren has some ideas here: https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/after-trump
I find this a little strange. Do you not think it is possible change the way things are done, even a little bit, to limit that corruption? Of course it will never be perfect, but I think there's a lot of low hanging fruit out there that could make a big difference. Warren has some ideas here: https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/after-trump
Free?
Does Santa pay for it?
A tax is no different than paying a premium.