The USA holds a third of the world's wealth and are the richest country in the world. It seems ridiculous to say we can't afford it when we can afford spending billions and billions occupying the middle east.
Why do people say the USA can't afford single payer healthcare?
Bentley Long
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Easton Bailey
yes
Jace Ward
Low estimates say it would cost us about 55% of our current budget. We already spend significantly more than we take in thanks to welfare taking over 50% of the budget. So what 55% of budget do you suggest we cut from the budget to fund singlepayer healthcare?
Tyler Hill
NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES WITH COMMUNIST HEALTHCARE AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
Nathaniel Diaz
well we could raise taxes on the extremely wealthy and also cut military spending
Alexander Lee
keked, I almost let my tenders hit the floor
Jonathan Richardson
If we took 80% of millionaires money in taxes it would fund about 2% of the budget needed. The military budget is about 13% of the total budget. If you say cut the military budget by half you would have 6.5%.. So in total you have 8.5% of the budget needed for the 55%. What else are we going to cut?
Adam Price
Nathan Allen
The only thing the government is good at a creating expensive bureaucracies full of rent seekers.
Get a job you commie.
Juan Miller
It will drain 32trillon dollars per 5 years from the economy & thats the low end gov figures. We all know what happens to gov figures on anything they say.
Luke Murphy
how do we spend 50% on welfare? what does all of that go to?
Joseph Jenkins
Food stamps
Veterans Benefts
Low income housing
Medicare
Planned Parenthood funding
Free healthcare for illegal immigrants
Isaiah Rogers
nah I'd rather purge niggers
Ryder Sanders
The vast majority of it is medicare though.
Austin Diaz
Literally old, fat, insane people that spend 50% of their life in a hospital for a decade and cost us millions each. Every single test under the sun done at the taxpayers' expense.
Brandon Nguyen
>Medicare
Also forgot to mention social security which is the 2nd biggest expense for the government after medicare.
Daniel Brooks
Because in order for it to be affordable personnel and wages would each have to be reduced by 80%, that's a 96% reduction to the entire industry. Secondly, taxes would have to be increased to compensate for any gaps.
And since the severe reduction in medical personnel will cause their demand to skyrocket, there wouldn't be any way for Big Pharma and "Medical Studies" to function.
Converting to a Universal healthcare would fuck everyone over.
Thomas Myers
Hard to do because the media spins so that raising taxes on the rich will ignite class warfare. Except the "warfare" would be the lower 95% vs everybody else, but they sucker middle class America into believing that they're part of the rich.
Julian Morales
Here is the 2015 spending by the way.
66% of the entire budget was welfare.
33% was unemployment and social security
27% was medicare
4% was veteran's benefit
2% was government housing
Trump's budget is similar except he slightly cut the military to budget to around 13% but raised veteran benefit spending and low income housing budgets while cutting the environmental budget and eunemployment budget.
Jonathan Gutierrez
Cut welfare and switch medicare spending to pay for universal healthcare?
Carson Howard
Most people can afford single payer healthcare.
The problem is our priorities are horribly wrong.
>spend like 900 dollars on food
>pay goy tax on cellphones and such
>cable tv cost like 80 dollars now
There is so much wasted money that if you sat back and actually objectively paid for what you needed. You'd have next to no debt easily and pay your healthcare.
Camden Stewart
and people say "cut the military". ffs welfare needs to be cut the most
Nathan Howard
how do we spend that much on social security?
Joseph Martin
There are tons of people in this country who refuse to work and therefore live on unemployment. Mostly blacks and latinos. Also a shitload of the boomer generation didn't save up any money for retirement so they are living entirely on welfare as well.
Michael Lee
The fuck is wrong with you leftist dumbasses?
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Logan Lewis
I noticed the left seems to be economically illiterate and don't realize we spent shitloads on welfare. They all seem to think the military budget is massive when in reality its nowhere near the welfare spending.
Luke Morales
Tbh we need to cut almost everything before that bubble bursts user. Also end the federal reserve. 1/3rd of that debt is owed to them.
Oliver Williams
No. I am simply not going to agree to pay for some land whale with diabetes infected roasties purse full of speculatively effective medicines and constant medical care. Just not going to happen.
Asher Cooper
Here's my delema....eventually we'll have kids, some of us already do here. The odds that our children, or children's children, might have kids prone to a medical condition and going through anguish is fairly high. This sort of shit breaks my heart knowing somewhere in our linage there's going to be family suffering due to a preexisting condition which will bankrupt decendants and cause sadness and anguish. That's pretty fucked up. We need to figure this shit out as a country.
Noah Young
So what you are saying is that over 50% of the budget we could eliminate by switching over to Universal Basic Income.
Jackson Gutierrez
>Lets give everyone money. That'll reduce our dept.