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That's a lot of words to say they only care about themselves.
#1 question who's gonna pay for it? Free isn't free with those goods and services.
Given there's a trillionaire class you could totally start a trust and in 5 years have enough money to fund all of those for 10 years worth of those good and services the questions are: how much do you want in the trust, how much do you think we should tax people to reach that goal and how are we going to make this work effectively because eit would have to be in the bench mark of the 200k$ and up class to make it effective.
Medical, Housing and Work Leave are the biggest that would cost the most you could make college free and make it go off of income as well but that's still making pay just not up front.
Put it this way housing market in New Hampshire fuckin' sucks and the taxes are a fuck load but there's no sales tax because they evened it out.
So unless you can even these goods and services out effectivly in the way of where the hell are you getting the money to pay for these goods and services, you're not getting far.
Doctors need to get paid, college professors need to get paid, housing authorities and landlords still need to get paid (and utilities and all that shit), like solar/wind/nuclear still needs funding.
It's not that they don't want it!!! They don't know how to make it cost effective without it needing to accumulate in a treasury in the same amount of time it would take for 4 presidencies to go by before it could even be used and in that time the new presidents could scrap the trust.
It's not gonna happen. I'm for it. It'll never happen but I'm for it
It's been said countless times. Americans are right now paying way more for these services than they would if it was paid through taxes. The secret to this little scheme, that only every single other devolped country has figured out, and has been fucking screaming at you for a century, is that you cut out the middle men. The shareholders at the hospital, the shareholders at the insurance company, the shareholders at the colleges, the loan sharks making billions off of people needing to survive.
It's not very hard. Get rid of the people who only make profit off of people's suffering instead of helping the situation, and you get a remarkebly better result. Those middlemen are nothing but leeches. They don't actually do anything, they just siphon money out of the pockets of poor people.
America, the only place where this shit is happening, and for some reason, they're hellbent on never looking at how other countries do it, and live in complete denial, thinking they're the createst country in the world.
We could have "free" healthcare by paying less than we pay today.
We are simply getting ripped off at every turn. For some reason there are a lot of people who think it should cost out the ass for basic care you can get for much cheaper. And it isn't because it is "higher quality" like some claim. A white woman is 2x as likely to die during pregnancy in the U.S. than if they were in Canada. A black woman 6x. So it all ends up being about money/class.
Think about this. The U.S. provides free X-rays for 2.5 million people and their luggage every day, by a federal department that didn't even exist pre-2001.
Our taxes even went down
2001 Brackets: 15%, 27.5%, 30.5%, 35.5%, and 39.1%. The top 39.1% rate kicked in at $297,350.
2026 Brackets: 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35%, and 37%. The top 37% rate begins at $640,600
So who's paying for the department of homeland security? It's not a mystery, we are.
Our health care system is set up to milk every penny they can from the people. We could cut the costs so much that it actually is funny. If it was made illegal to provide health insurance in the U.S. and it was illegal to overcharge on medications and procedures, our healthcare system would get better for the majority of the population.
They could, I don't know take the money out of the military budget. There is absolutely fucking no reason that the military is paying $10,000 for a hammer. And look I work for the government The spending is absolutely ridiculous. Why don't we audit what the military is spending their money on?