This is why you don’t have universal healthcare. It’s not fucking NASA.

April 06, 2026 - 17:54 UTC

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Nice to see a new generation of dems making the same mistake that Dems in the 90s did. Good that we can’t ever learn anything as a county and that “young” Dems are still haunted by the ghost of Ronald Reagan
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you can criticize 90s Dems for lots of things but not opposition to taxation, very famously the opposite
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Slash benefits and pay for all Congress, Senate, Supreme Court Justices and Executive Branch staffers. No more paid protection, no more transportation. They can take the bus or bike to the fuckin capitol building, useless anyway
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How do they expect to cut taxes and maintain an even current level of services? Oh wait…
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choosing to believe 'this' refers to 'centrist dems'
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its the equivalent of Republicans running on healthcare.
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These proposals get more unserious by the day
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Sometimes people in critical sociology ask if neoliberalism is real and if there are any neoliberals that exist and to that I say, any Democrat running on tax cuts in this current moment counts
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To the extent that taxes are too low, the main problems are that capital gains are treated favorably to income and the top brackets are way too low.
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So I guess as a society we’ve just conceded the idea that taxes are bad and we shouldn’t have to pay them. Rather than actually providing good services in exchange we’re just going to get rid of all of it. And….. then what? This is so fucking dumb
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Wash your mouth out with soap!
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Sorry, the political divide just isnt there as in 2008 anymore.
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Idk seems to be a bit chicken-and-egg. Do we not have basic social services because we fail to tax adequately? Or do we fail to tax adequately because people don't believe we can provide basic social services? This feels a bit more like the latter imo, though ofc it's actually both
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Def not NASA though, the rocket folx are blameless (except Werner)
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Just tax the Billionaires fairly.
20 % minimum tax.
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Taxing the billionaires fairly, while necessary for a whole lot of reasons, will not in fact pay for everything that needs paying for. If you want to have a functional health care system, infrastructure, and all of the Good Things, you also need to tax the non-billionaires.
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American billionaires, slightly over 8 trillion total dollars, 20 percent, that's about 1.6 trillion the first year, US tax revenue about 5 trillion.

Also almost all the billionaires are gone in a few years, which is fine on its own but we still need taxes from somewhere.
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