| mrstickball said: Rath, Please explain to me how the systems in the United States provide actual benefits to those that use pay into them, and to a level that cannot be reached in private systems. For example, Rath, did you know that the average Medicare recipient requires nearly 4 times as much funding as the average recipient of government health care in your home country of New Zealand? Did you also know that, in America, if you earn more than $22,000 per year, you will pay more into our pension plan than you will recieve? I must ask you, Rath: Why should I support a system that is grossly incompotent? Why should people of any class pay into systems that damange people's income? I want poor, middle and rich classes to make more money. This can be done through payroll reforms, which encompass medicare/medicaid, social security, and such. If a person in poverty could make an additional $2,000 or $3,000 a year via payroll reforms, why not allow them to have that in their pockets today, rather than force them to live return-to-return? |
You understand that many persons will not keep this money. Many will just spend more. This isnt gonna help them when they loose their job, have a medical problem or if they didnt kept enough for their pension. Some also have physical or mental problem preventing them from working. You can say they are the one and only responsible, but its not as easy as that. Most will not simply accept death. They will steal, revolt, arm others ect.
Is it really better then being taxed less? Thats the question you need to ask yourself. Taxing less, will not result in making everyone richer, it will result in a much bigger gap between riches and poor through disparition of the middle class. The bigger the gap, the bigger society problems you have on your hands. If you prefer that in order to make more money, fine, but dont think this will help everyone.
