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Yo Krausee
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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. My fishing partner is a retired LEO. Was a Medicaid fraud investigator for the state AG. They would turn over evidence of Medicare fraud when they found state Medicaid fraud. He said the Feds just ignored the fraud. |
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