• metaStatic@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    you don’t need to tax the rich for universal healthcare

    source: literally every country with universal healthcare already

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        7 months ago

        The US already overall spends more than enough on healthcare, to fund universal care for everyone. But that fat inflated money pool, needs to pay for a ton of wasteful expenses that have nothing to do with healthcare (billing, insurance sales, people who bounce documents and phone calls back & forth to the insurance companies; and of course profit extraction).

        Tax the rich to pay for infrastructure, green energy projects, UBI or other help to the poorest & working poor …heck even throwing billions at fusion energy research, will create a lot more economic activity and be money better spent; than letting the psychopathic wealth hording dragons keep their missions of gold.

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        7 months ago

        Don’t think they have anything against it, their point seemed more like. “If they wanted to implement healthcare, they aren’t being stopped by not taxing them rn”