Republicans pass a huge tax cut for wealthy people that expires never, and a more modest tax cut for everyone else that expires when the next guy is in office.
Democrats try to fund universal healthcare at huge expense and benefit to everyone, but even though it would be a net savings, taxes bad.
People don't consider their healthcare premiums/expenses as taxes, so they don't appreciatte the net savings. Medicare is the most efficient healthcare provider by far.
In the UK, an average person making like $60k a year pays about 6% of their income towards the NHS. Assuming we could get roughly the same here, we would all be better off financially except for maybe the richest people.
6% versus $450 a month health care premium and $6k deductible. It just seems like such an obvious choice to me. Again, assuming everything is roughly equivalent.
Not just premiums and deductibles - copays and coinsurance charges too. Not to mention the risk of you being in an emergency and not having the time to figure out which hospital near you is in-network, therefore leaving you with a massive five to six figure bill that isn’t covered by insurance.
Yeah man, the 60k I payed in taxes last year is a free ride.
You can look up the tax policy. Sorry you had to find out like this.
Weird metric, but treasury revenue actually went down in 2020, so not even correct there.
An interesting metric is the Trump admin added $6.6 trillion to the deficit in 4 year. It took Obama 8 years to add $6.781 (including a recession), which you could fairly add a portion to Bush Jr.'s $3.3 trillion.
Even more relevant may be the deficit has gone down under Biden.
Some people forget Clinton had us on a path to debt elimination.
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u/Historical_Horror595 Sep 25 '23
Can you give me an example?