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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
National health would be a smart program but you can't promise that along with a tax only on the rich and be taken seriously. Advertise truly. "To establish a national health program, we are establishing a $5 a gallon gas tax, a 10% VAT tax and a 20% income tax increase."
Also look at all the countries higher than us on the quality of life scale. How many of them can you just emigrate to?
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Actually, for me personally, the number appears to be 2, and I'm still pissed about my father not getting Canadian citizenship when he could have.
As to national health, the US has totally anomalous costs compared to the rest of the world, and that increased cost is going somewhere; I'll be the first to say that the ACA, as good as it was in many ways, only took a half-hearted swing at the expense side of the equation.
I've spent a lot of time in this area, and I think that we could cover the cost of getting to universal insurance with less than half of what Trump's tax cuts cost us - just reversing that bill can give Ds a lot of money to cover both a universal healthcare approach and some major impact educational programs. I've got my own idea of where I'd spend in education, but a key is that on the cost side Dems can say, we'll undo that bill, put in place a pure working & middle class tax cut with a portion of the money saved, and still have funding for substantial expansion of healthcare and more educational opportunity.
