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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes, I’d pay more taxes to ensure there were things like universal healthcare for those who wanted it.[/quote]

You are missing the point.  We cannot pay for the services that government provides _now_.  Just to continue these, and balance the budget, you will need to pay significantly more in taxes (in the 50-100% more range).  This does not get more services, does not get universal health care, or anything else.  If you want that, you will have to pay even more (and convince the rest of the country to do that, too).

This isn't politics--just math.

And anyone who doesn't understand this is either innumerate or is happy to pass current expenses to future generations and put the future of the republic at risk.[/quote]

They could undo the unfunded 2017 tax cuts and it would cover a lot of what is being discussed.[/quote]
Republicans have gone out of their way to make sure that social security and other programs become insolvent. Separately, but related inasmuch as the GOP wants to get rid of the (constitutionally mandated) postal service, it’s the GOP that has created a situation in which the USPS appears to be on the brink of disaster, and not only that but they’ve blocked the USPS from creating a banking service within itself that would not only fund the USPS and allow it to modernize but would also bring low cost banking to just about everywhere in the US, including many areas that are currently only served by predatory pay day loan type places.

Bill Clinton summed up the GOP: “The Republicans are pretty simple, actually, and pretty straightforward. They say, ‘I want you to be very miserable. And I want you to be very angry. And I want you to vote for us, and we’ll make it worse, but we’ll blame them.” That’s all the GOP offers. Misery and blame. [/quote]

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