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AtUrCervix -> RE: Healthcare....Incentive to buy Insurance (6/28/2017 3:40:06 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
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ORIGINAL: AtUrCervix
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
Yes, we can afford to pay our current bills. We just chose not to by gutting our revenue.
Ahhh....and considering that current taxes fall short by well over 90% of current debt (if we opted to pay everything off over the next 50 years with no increases in benefits...or interest).....who should be taxed more...and by how much?
(By the way...revenues haven't been gutted...and we still can't pay off the debt. Obama raised taxes and that wasn't enough to pay off the debt. Who pays more...and by how much?)
All fine questions. But the truth of the matter is still that we wanted stuff, were paying for it, chose not to, added more stuff, and could pay for it but still choose not to, accumulating debt instead.
Point--it's simply not true we can't afford things. We can afford a HUGE military, for example. The better question would be (a) which things do we want because they are worth it and (b) how much are we willing to pay for the things we think are worth it.
THAT would be a honest discussion. Instead--smoke and mirrors, with dishonest politicians hoping that growth will magically tide them over, while moronic voters keep rubber stamping their idiotic structural deficit.
Jeeeezus gawdamn...dude...you pissed me off...(with logic!)
(Gawdammmmmmit...he did it again!!!).
Okay..you got me on that one...(I'm coming back!).
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