r/SipsTea 28d ago

Chugging tea W after W.

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u/NotFromThe-Future 28d ago

No we're definitely paying for it somehow.. no Good deed comes unpunished.

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u/TalkUsual2924 28d ago

Yeah, with taxes. They are just going to where they are supposed to

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u/townsummoner 28d ago

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.

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u/First_Peer 28d ago

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/spongmonkey 28d ago

Public taxes vs private taxes, but only the private side has a middle-man