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Uninsured people drive up the health care costs for everyone because they all end up in emergency and those costs end up being factored into the cost of doing business. Hospitals don't absorb those costs, they pass them on to the rest of us who do have insurance.
And illegal aliens who habitually drive with no insurance drive up the costs for everyone else....but I don't hear Liberals complaining about that.
Many people retire before age 65. Social Security can start at age 62 but people also retire before age 62 before they are eligible for Social Security retirement. Some have a pension that starts earlier and/or they have investment income.
Give us the exact breakdown of how many retirees file a tax return as a percentage of total tax filers.
I guess if we just punish those people by letting their sick children die, that will show them, amirite?
Isn't that a natural consequence of their own choices and actions? Why are some but not all forced to bear the responsibility and cost forothers' self-made choices under the threat of property seizure and imprisonment? How is that a free society in any way, shape, or form?
Good grief, that's an exact description of SLAVERY.
Pay close attention to what that scatter plot chart tells us... Note that the highest levels of government benefits and services are provided by countries (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium) in which taxes are flat (everyone pays the same tax rate) or regressive (shown as the negative values, meaning a greater tax burden is placed on those with lower incomes). And note where the USA falls on the graph. The USA has the most progressive tax system and therefore is least able to fund progressives' societal goals because the tax base is too narrow, and therefore generates insufficient tax revenue.
The U.S. also has the highest income inequality between rich and poor in the developed world, and on par with some third world countries.
How would that work? Medicare requires a minimum 10 year period of prepaid premiums (in the form of the Medicare tax) before one is even eligible for benefits. And then even after that 10 years worth of prepayments minimum is met, Medicare charges monthly premiums, only covers 80%, and prescriptions aren't covered unless one buys an additional policy.
Isn't that a natural consequence of their own choices and actions? Why are some but not all forced to bear the responsibility and cost forothers' self-made choices under the threat of property seizure and imprisonment? How is that a free society in any way, shape, or form?
Good grief, that's an exact description of SLAVERY.
You are okay with walking over dead children in the streets. Gotcha. Most decent people in First World countries are not.
Looking at it in another way: What about an individual's health problems that occur because of environmental and job factors? We know certain things cause cancer, for example. Who is then responsible for the cost?
Whoever caused the environmental or job factor. Surely you haven't missed the huge settlements awarded in courts of law on exactly this issue?
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