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[–] Kill-Commies 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago (edited ago)
Their reaction: "Lol fag you pay taxes, I'm a societal leech gibs more please"
[–] MrWicked 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Came here to say this
[–] cynicaloldfart 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
The Govt has never "had" any money. They only decide how to spend ours.
[–] 9998650? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Their intention is to have government take over all of health care and pay for it through taxes. We all know this.
[–] bikergang_accountant 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Who says that insurance costs are reduced as a result. People need to pick up some marginal theory.
If you have the same consequences buying or not buying it now as was before, then you will be willing to pay the same price for it. So you do pay the same price for it, and they get a tax subsidy on top of it. It's free money for cronies, and not some innocent right hand left hand trick as OP makes it out to be.
Austrianism is something everyone here needs to learn. https://www.mises.org/sites/default/files/Principles%20of%20Economics_5.pdf
[–] ardvarcus ago
The people who work for a living are financing the lives and health care of the parasites, those who do not work for a living.
[–] edistojim ago
Anyone ever heard of National Flood Insurance?
[–] 8Ball ago
All part of a globalist agenda to gut the American working and middle classes and make them highly dependent on the government for essential services. These corporatists have gotten in bed with the government, and completely destroyed free market healthcare.