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Originally Posted by ChristopherHall
So in closing...you're already paying a "hidden tax" that cares for the uninsured. Also you're paying more in premiums and over all costs and co-pays than you would in taxes if we moved to a national health insurance program. And as the cost of health care in the US continues to rise this becomes even more relevant. That's why it's becoming more and more of an issue.
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We cannot afford the underfunded and un-funded mandates for the social programs we have now, and your solution is to SPEND MORE MONEY? You do know where they get the money for this stuff, right? They take it from people who work at jobs and feed their families, and when that's not enough, they print it off of presses just like it was Monopoly money.
If you were to use the same tactics to fund your health insurance on a local, microeconomic level, you'd go to jail. Specifically, walking over to your neighbor's house with a gun and confiscating a sum of money for your insurance premium and "administrative overhead." But having a law passed so that a police officer and an IRS agent do your dirty work for you, now somehow that's
ethical????
Your faith in the efficiency and benevolence of government bureaucracy is both quaint and horrifying at the same time.
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