Pet peeve: not free healthcare. Healthcare paid for by our tax dollars. Nobody is asking for free stuff, just that tax dollars go back into services for constituents instead of lining the pockets of other politicians and billionaires.
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Healthcare paid for by taxing those who can afford to be taxed more, like the rich, who DO NOT pay their fair share. Why should the average working class person Ike me pay a 28% tax rate while a rich person making $500k+ pays less than 5%?
aug 28, 2025, 11:34 am • 15 2 • view
I would much rather healthcare is paid by my tax dollars and it becomes universal and the for profit entities in the middle that don't contribute to the providing of healthcare we have in the US are removed. It would be so much more less expensive that what we have now.
aug 29, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
My company pays over $4k per every family we support on healthcare. If we provided this back to employees in salary and they went to pay 10% of their salary for healthcare like they do in Japan? Or 6% in the UK? They'd have far more money in their pockets than they do now. So, in a way, it's "free".
aug 29, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Clarification: we pay $4k per family PER MONTH that we support with company-provided healthcare benefit. Can you imagine how much more each of my employees would have in salary (we're almost all salaried manufacturing employees) if we didn't provide this for them because the government did?
aug 29, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Pffft, there's no such thing as free libraries!
aug 29, 2025, 4:23 pm • 1 0 • view