Notice Medicare for All!

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  1. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    https://www.rt.com/usa/403240-sanders-introduces-medicare-for-all/

     
  2. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    I'd support it if it was paid for by a national sales tax.
     
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    So you want to raise taxes to pay for healthcare?
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    I don't mind.
     
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    Ok then why would you be against eliminating your healthcare premium and paying $500 more a year in taxes?
     
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    My employer provides healthcare, but 500 a year isn't going to break the bank. But I'd rather NOT pay extra. I pay that much for dental anyway.
     
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    But you eliminate your premium. How much do you pay a month for healthcare?
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    zero.
     
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    I agree. Why should those of us that work hard pay for healthcare for the worthless bastards that are fully capable of working but choose to screw the system and live off of government assistance (my tax dollars!) and spend their time protesting everything.
     
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    Lucky you. I'd wager to say 90% of us pay a premium.

    Mine with my son is $350 a month for a Kaiser Gold Plan.

    Medicare for all saves me $3700 per year. I'd put that money right back into the economy.
     
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    Those old folks that we pay for now sure are worthless huh?

    So are those MFs in congress who get premium care.

    You should be ashamed of this stance.

    EVERYONE needs healthcare. Poor and rich. And newsflash, not every poor person is that way because of being lazy.
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    As a single male making decent money with no kids and not that much investment income, I get fucked the most at tax time. IMO, there should be no deductions for kids there should be a penalty if something like this were enacted.
     
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    Read my post and maybe comprehend it before you freak out! "fully capable of working but choose not to".
     
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    Those people are few and far between.

    But those lazy people, they deserve to die if they get sick.... Just like jesus said, I'll heal the sick when they can pay.
     
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    Survival of the fittest. Population control.
     
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    If I may ask, how so?
    I always get more of a tax return by 2-3k than anyone I know with kids or married.
    I'm not married and claim 0 dependents.
    One of my friends actually stopped talking to me because what I got out from tax returns. He believed I was somehow scamming the system.
     
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  18. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    Higher tax bracket.
    Not a lot of deductions.
    Not married.
    No kids.
    No small business.
    Live in California.

    Chances are you take a lot out of your paycheck anyway, so you pay it forward and just happen to get money back when its all said and done.
     
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    Let's be glad that your worldview isn't popular.
     
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    Yeah a good bit does come out of my checks, but it's not me getting screwed come tax time in the least.
    I expect about 4-5k in a return in 2018. As long as nothing major happens between now and then at least.
     

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