Just When Do The Rich Say: It's Time To Raise Our Taxes (interviews, health care system)

[albert648]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

You're incorrect, as countries with single payer spend less per capita on Healthcare than we do

Yet any Canadian who can afford it is crossing the border for surgery.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by albert648

Yet any Canadian who can afford it is crossing the border for surgery.

Any rich Canadian, middle class Canadians have no interest in our Healthcare system

[albert648]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

Any rich Canadian, middle class Canadians have no interest in our Healthcare system

And I have no interest in paying what they pay in taxes. I don't give a flying rat's ass how "good" their healthcare is.

Hard Pass.

[DK736]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

That's the wrong term as well. I'm a Social Democrat, I advocate government similar to what the Scandinavian countries have, Capitalism with a welfare state (and single payer healthcare)

Then move to Scandinavia if America is holding you back so much. Our values clearly aren't good enough for you. With the amount of complaining you do on here I'm shocked you haven't left already.

[DK736]

Originally Posted by JimRom

Healthcare and education are expensive because of government involvement, and you want more government involvement? Why?

Because he's a Socialist, no matter how much he denies it.

[DK736]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

Any rich Canadian, middle class Canadians have no interest in our Healthcare system

Wrong again. But carry on as you've given us 30 pages worth of posts showing how clueless you are.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by DK736

Wrong again. But carry on as you've given us 30 pages worth of posts showing how clueless you are.

You're clueless on this issue, and I'm not a Socialist

[Grlzrl]

Originally Posted by Leo58

That might be OK, as long as all income is consider equally. No lower rates for capital gains. No tax shelters. No deductions for mortgage interest or charitable donations.

You are delusional if you think the mortgage interest deduction still exists. It is not possible to exceed the standard deduction. The only way you can is if you bundle it with OTHER deductions. The average Joe isn't getting it.

[Grlzrl]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

Rich people think any amount of taxes are unreasonable, because they think they earned all their money in a vacuum, and that anything that is taxed will go to "those awful poors who don't deserve one crumb of it"

How on earth would YOU know what rich people think?

I was against taxes when I was young. Why? Because I worked for two county governments and I saw the massive waste and abuse of the taxpayer $$ and it makes me sick. Did then. Does now. Politicians have no respect for people who work hard.

[Grlzrl]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

I bet I earn more than you do, so if anything, I should be the one asking that question of you, but I don't, because I believe in redistribution

I bet you don't earn more than I do.