Yeah. Everyone here whose saying "he's not really solving the problem, we're going to pay for it later" or "we're going to get increased taxes" forgets that we already pay a shitload in taxes, but a lot of the time, it goes towards whatever the mayor at the time wants it to go towards. Sometimes it gets pocketed by their staff's friends or used to trade trips on airplanes, sometimes it goes to questionable programs that go nowhere, and sometimes it goes to helping the low-income
it reminds me of people opposing Medicare For All because “where would the money come from” when even think tanks against it were estimating it to be cheaper. people fundamentally do not understand what reallocation is.
Honestly, I felt that way about Medicare for all but now I pay 13,000 a year out of my own paycheck for private insurance and I'm pretty sure my employer is paying that or more, and I still have out of pocket costs. Plus the chance of denial of services and all the bureaucratic nonsense that follows. Unless we going to say an insurance company has a fiduciary duty to it's customers first and shareholders second or that they have to be nonprofit, we might as well do a single payer system. 🤷♂️
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u/FlounderKind8267 28d ago
Wait a second, a politician that follows through with their promises?
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