Re:The global gag on free speech is tightening
by philwelch on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:00PM
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> nobody who's become nominee for the Democrats has supported socialized medicine of any flavor, whether that's two-tier or single-payer.
Obama originally proposed a public option for Obamacare, but withdrew that part of the plan to get the rest of the reform passed. Bill Clinton had a universal health care plan in 1993. Even Harry Truman campaigned for national health insurance in 1948.
Of the current candidates, Biden supports a public option while Warren and Sanders support a single-payer system.
> I'm not sure that's a left v. right thing but more a function of the trillion dollar deficit.
The net effect of high corporate taxes is that corporations don't pay them anyway. The corporate taxes that actually do get paid tend to be in countries like Ireland with low corporate taxes. If Democrats were as reasonable and centrist as their European counterparts, they would advocate for a revenue-neutral lowering of corporate tax offset by increases in individual taxes.
Obama originally proposed a public option for Obamacare, but withdrew that part of the plan to get the rest of the reform passed. Bill Clinton had a universal health care plan in 1993. Even Harry Truman campaigned for national health insurance in 1948.
Of the current candidates, Biden supports a public option while Warren and Sanders support a single-payer system.
> I'm not sure that's a left v. right thing but more a function of the trillion dollar deficit.
The net effect of high corporate taxes is that corporations don't pay them anyway. The corporate taxes that actually do get paid tend to be in countries like Ireland with low corporate taxes. If Democrats were as reasonable and centrist as their European counterparts, they would advocate for a revenue-neutral lowering of corporate tax offset by increases in individual taxes.