People with collage degrees earn more over their lifetimes than people who do not. You're being petty.
It's not petty, it's an average. That neurosurgeon making $800k/yr is balancing out a lot of morons with their Comms degrees. The cohort I am talking about are the poorly educated with low value degrees.
Nonsense. To qualify for aid you have to be poverty level and with children.
A bald faced lie. You get subsidies based on a *multiplier* of the poverty level.
Everyone is due to the high cost. Some people simply go without insurance for the reason above.
Lolz. If you are on medicaid or an ACA plan, you don't give a rip, it's all damn near free. Again, the people getting jammed are those above median.
Yes it does. If you have money to pay it's wonderful. If not....
I'm not talking about lifestyle. However, obesity is a real problem in the U.S. as a function of inequality.
Only in America do we say that being fat is because you are poor. It is pathetic how far you will go to make excuses for people no matter the situation. Tell you what, we can kill two birds with one stone. You want welfare? Great, road clean up crews. Will lose a ton of weight in the process.
Calm down and back up. This was your claim:
Nothing in the S.S. trustee report substantiates this nonsense.
For the third time, that was to illustrate that these programs are unsustainable. SS/Medicare are by definition insolvent.
Social spending isn't welfare spending. Furthermore, the high cost of U.S. healthcare inflates the differential on a comparative basis. It's not about spending money... it's about spending money on the right things.
In economics social spending is the same as welfare spending. Perhaps you are confused between Welfare and welfare. It isn't about means testing, it is about social betterment programs and their costs. A minute ago you said we don't spend enough money and asked me to prove it, I did, now you move the bar.... again.
I'm not the one complaining about deficits... that would be you. If we want to cut deficits than a combination of spending cuts and tax increases are guaranteed.
Spending has grown far faster than anything else while tax revenue has been largely stable and more of the burden has landed on the top 10%. Hence, most progressive code. The fix is either more taxes on everyone (seeing large hikes on the lower and middle income in particular, to mirror the OECD/EU) combined with large cuts in programs.
The end result of putting too much emphasis on private sector contribution. Market failure is a attributable to dependence on deficits or vice versa.
Ahh, so the *state* is always the solution. Karl Marx would be proud.
That's not an argument to continue our shitty health care system.
Yet you seemingly deny how good a deal those on medicaid/ACA plans are getting, see above.
An education is what you make of it. The difference between University of Chicago and UIC is who you're sitting next to in class.
That's simply not true and it is indicative of which of those two programs you went to.
I'm requesting you to cite your claims given your history of making ridiculous statements and then running away when called on them. It's not my claim and therefore not my responsibility. France has free health care and education... so i would hope the people who use the services are taxed as a result.
I have asked you to cite several things and provided citations to your requests. You then just move the goal posts, make excuses, and go ambiguous. It's your classic MO around here.
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fiscaldata.treasury.gov