On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:23:44 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 3/27/17 12:25 PM, wrote:

Since the cutoff for paying any taxes is $55-60k for a family of 4 and
it creeps up slowly from there, it is going to take a huge bump in
jobs to get these people actually paying any significant amount. They
do still pay FICA but, as I said, that dos not even cover the programs
it is supposed to support.
I suppose someone should point out to Harry and his gang that his
"single payer" plan would be a huge tax increase to a person who pays
nothing now. Ask Don how much a Canadian family of 4 would pay on
$60,000. I suppose I could look it up myself since Canadian taxes are
pretty easy and there are online calculators.


As I have stated many times, we need to reshuffle our priorities in
this country. We can start by slicing the military budget by at least
50%. Then we can force the medical profession to accept customary and
reasonable rates for services, and pharma to charge reasonable prices
for its wares. The money that now goes to private health insurers could
instead be paid into a national health care fund, with families paying
into it on the basis of family income.

It will never work if half the country is too poor to pay (as we
decided with income tax). You also have the problem that government
managed health care is less efficient than private insurers so it
would be more expensive. Medicare and Medicaid run fraud rates in the
17-19% on top of that. The policy is pay and chase. Chasing seldom
actually works because the scammers are long gone by the time the
chasers even get the case.
The short answer is this is not Sweden or even Canada.