"The "poor" pay essentially no taxes."-johnfibs
Dishonest johnny knows this is a lie but he says it anyway. As a percentage of income, poor people pay a far higher rate tax rate than the wealthy. This is unfair and regressive. Those who need the money most have the largest percentage of their income taken from them.
If johnforbes insists the wealthy pay most taxes in absolute terms, then it is only an idictment of a system where the
20 wealthiest people in America own more wealth than the poorest 50% of Americans combined.
https://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/
The wealthy benefit most from what America provides, (as the past decade has shown us in income growth for all sectors of the society) they should pay the most for what they disproportionately receive from America. This is a perfectly reasonable and fair thing to expect.
"According to the report, the lower one’s income, the higher the effective state and local tax rate. Combining all state and local income, property, sales and excise taxes that Americans pay, the nationwide average effective state and local tax rates by income group are
10.9 percent for the poorest 20 percent, 9.4 percent for the middle 20 percent and 5.4 percent for the top 1 percent, the report said.
In the 10 states with the most regressive tax structures, the bottom 20 percent pay up to seven times as much of their income in combined taxes as their wealthy counterparts."-Pew Charitable Trusts
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-an ... e-in-taxes
"Remember the Georgetown Law gal who was angry that she might have to pay for her own birth control?"-johnfoibles
Conservatives are truly idiots if they can't understand they want poor people and anyone who wants it to use birth control...at any cost to themselves. They should be clamoring to pay for it, not indignantly refusing to pay for it.
It is far cheaper for them in the long run as compared to social welfare program costs.
"Yep, a giant VA for everyone, nurses and doctors would become federal workers that can't be fired, customer service, quality and productivity goes out the door..."-ReslStool
This is more made up stupid shit.
Most hospitals are now owned by corporations and there is no reason to expect that the government would buy all of them, nor that they would hire all the medical staff. Customer service would be as good as the corporations are now willing to provide. If the service comes to suck worse than it currently does, then it's only because the corporations are willing to let it suck. The corporations would still oppress the nurses through overwork and under-staffing as they do now.
All a "single payer" system means is that private medical insurance companies wouldn't be removing billions of dollars from the health care system before it goes to actually providing health care.
Private insurers no longer serve any useful purpose in the medical system. They just cost doctors and hospitals millions of dollars a year in billing and staffing expenses, and bleed off billions that could be spent on actual medical care instead.
"It would help kill off of the elderly and really sick though as they wait months to see a doctor."-RealStool
Why do you think corporate hospitals would provide any worse scheduling then than they do now?
As namandgulfdumbfuck would say, you're just pulling shit out of your ass.
- By elklindo69