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Frankly, giving Mark Zuckerberg a tax cut isn't my top priority. In fact, I'm OK with him having just 349 yachts rather than 350 if it means better health care and more funding for police.
That's not how it works. The government takes more money, you end up poorer, the police get defunded and the money goes into "social services" (to Democratic clients, that is), health care gets more funding which just vanishes into a bureaucratic maw and you get worse health care for higher premiums. And Zuck probably still gets 350 yachts.
sounds like commie talk
He is a commie. He's also a vax pusher who whines about "muh racism" when he can get away with it.
He is a bog standard reddit leftist janny.
American right-wingers claim that Zuckerberg is a 'commie', but not giving that commie more money also makes you a 'commie'.
Looks like there is some confusion about what this word means.
I even hear that Google is 'commie'. Then some convoluted explanation as to how communism is the union of state and corporate power, and that since corporations control the state, it's communism.,
Nice linguistic chicanery you are trying to pull there.
Equating not stealing someones money under threat of government guns with "giving them more money".
A tax cut isn't giving someone money, a tax cut is stealing less.
Charming that you managed to convince yourself that scummy billionaires and tech monopolies are the victim here. Imagine wanting them to have more money and power.
Ideally how would you run health care? Serious question? I just think the government is pretty inefficient
Big focus on personal health. More around exercise than diet, because telling people what to eat always has the opposite effect.
Good points. And welcome back
I agree that government is almost always inefficient, and that it takes away people's freedom to boot.
I'm hardly qualified or knowledgeable enough to make any sort of claim about what health care system would be best. All the things that I have read about this are propaganda, either left-wing or right-wing, which I do not trust.
But you can make improvements on the margins, by for example giving poor people vouchers with which they can cover (part of) the cost of health insurance that they buy.
Problem with that is you will have people get mad over that and they will cave. Anything less than giving everyone everything they want is seen as hating the poor
Healthcare is, unsurprisingly, a reflection of the nation’s health. America is a very sick nation.
Weird that the wealthy continue to get richer and richer despite taxation. Almost like it doesn’t really affect them…