The promise of SS and Medicare will hold true for 1-2 generations at the cost of enslaving countless generations after that....is that fair and just in your opinion? The math says this will come to pass.brewster wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:10 amSays the guy advocating heavily progressive taxation.Martin Hash wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:00 amThe "that's not socialism" and "that's not Marxism" canards are Oral Illusions intended to derail the argument. If you have to say "those guys who believe, from those according to their ability, to those according to their need," then you've already lost the debate.
If that's the hill you're going to die on, I guess there's no SS or Medicare in store for you, you'll refuse it on principle, right? No unions, or union bennies too, they've always been Reds.
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If it's not redistribution I don't know what is.
We are only accustomed to dealing with like twenty online personas at a time so when we only have about ten people some people have to be strawmanned in order to advance our same relative go nowhere nonsense positions. -TheReal_ND
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If that were hypothetically true, what is your alternative that doesn't go 100% dystopian fucking Dickens?
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I think you'd do well on a interview with Dr Savage. You both have Democrat backgrounds, advanced educations and both understand Liberty is under attack.Martin Hash wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:03 amMine's better: "diversity is divisory."C-Mag wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:45 am+1Martin Hash wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:43 amThe fuel powering Marxism is perversity. It’s a common energy source that explains most of politics.
Perversity’s handmaidens are resentment & envy.
p.s. See “Philosophy of an Old Cyber-Cowboy” available on Amazon
Dr Savage has been saying it for years. Diversity it Perversity.
Dr Hash, you should reach out to Dr Savage and get on his show. You two actual have some things in common. He has a huge national audience.
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Not hypothetical....it is true (as hard as that is for you to accept)....the math (and the Government) says so. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/
Alternative is to break up the medical monopolies...you really don't see the problems of a large central government do you? You honestly believe it's a force of good...completely ignoring history. You can't grasp the concept that providing insurance to everyone allows the medical cabal to charge more? "We'll the govenrment can set the prices for drugs and procedures"...Ok, then you'll be forcing doctors and researchers to work longer hours for less pay...eventually they'll quit...
You don't like dealing with the truths of life....and that is why you and your children are doomed to live in a nightmare of your own making....
Is it so hard to understand that there is not enough money to pay for medical care and retirement for all...if you take from the rich - sure, you make it work a little longer...but you'll have to keep taking more and more each generation...and eventually, the rich will quit working when it is no longer worth their time and effort....then what?
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Go ahead and file that under Shit I didn't say for $1000 Alex.
SS and Medicare as they are currently run today............. Yes, deep six those bastards, they are anchors that will drag you down in the storm.
Can help for the elderly and sick poor be provided, yes to some degree, but it works best locally. The Filthy Collectivists want everything Nationalized. Nationalization of most any system is inneficient and ultimately unsustainable.
Ever heard of a poor farm.
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Socialism is not synonymous with redistribution. Market capitalism is redistribution too -- to the wealthy. Socialism refers to collectivization of capital goods in some fashion.
Progressive taxation is a counterbalance to capitalism's tendency to accumulate all the wealth.
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See GNP under Eisenhower with 91% tax rate. See GNP under JFK with 70% tax rate. Rich people keep trying to get richer even if it’s less rich.
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Any debt, especially SS & Medicare, can be solved by printing money. There is no downside in a healthy Market economy.
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+1 Z's on FireZlaxer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:26 am
Alternative is to break up the medical monopolies...you really don't see the problems of a large central government do you? You honestly believe it's a force of good...completely ignoring history. You can't grasp the concept that providing insurance to everyone allows the medical cabal to charge more? "We'll the govenrment can set the prices for drugs and procedures"...Ok, then you'll be forcing doctors and researchers to work longer hours for less pay...eventually they'll quit...
Health Insurance is not Health Care
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