Vetteman94 said:
The US is ranked like 30th in the world for health care, so to argue its one of the best would be a wrong arguement. The only thing i have seen rich people from other countries come here for is plastic surgery and what few normal physicians they go to for normal things, everyday people cant go to them due to how expensive they are so why bring them up.
Social Security is a self sustaining program, and its currently sitting at a surplus.
No. It's not self-sustaining. It was in the red for the first time ever in 2010, and is likely to never see a surplus ever again. This is due to the faulty way the program was built and sustained for a long time. In the 1950's, there were 8.6 workers per beneficiary. Today, its 3.2 and dropping. This will have a significant impact on the system, and eventually destroy it.
And with one small change to the Social Security system, raising the tax ceiling, it will take care of any issue that would arise in the future.
But why would you want to tax more people through such a broken, horrible system as Social Security? The reason more people would need to be taxes is that........It doesn't work! If SS was self-sustaining (as you said), then why would anything need to change?
But thats been tried and blocked by the Republicans. And Medicare could cost less if we used its size and number of participants to bargain with the drug companies for lower prices, but that keeps getting blocked by Republicans because it hurts the drug companies. Not to mention Medicare is going to start becoming cheaper over the next few years due to ObamaCare, as it saved a significant amount of money.
The CBO has heavily re-adjusted the Obamacare savings estimates. Instead of saving money, it is likely to cause massive deficits over the next decade.
There are no jobs to be had in this nation. Corporations are outsourcing work more and more since it is cheaper and gives them higher profits. Not to mention some are even moving their facilities out of the country cause its cheaper to ship And all the labor jobs are going to illegal immigrants due to low cost to pay them/ The unions are getting busted up and their bargaining rights taken away so whats left of the middle class basically cant fight back against these Coprorations. But what is this increased regulation and control the government has over these corporations you claim? Not getting enough H1B Visas for overseas help? Not getting enough subsidies from the government? Tax rates not low enough?
What unions are getting busted up? The only ones that are getting broken are public ones that should never have existed in the first place. Outside of that, most companies would rather do business in right-to-work states that don't have heavy, job-killing unions in them which is why states like Texas are booming.
The government has a lot of increased control over corporations, but it usually results in some corps getting favored, while killing smaller businesses. That is why the government needs LESS regulation, not MORE to favor certain industries or companies. We need lower taxes, no subsidies, and no credits.
And I think there is something wrong with the people in this country when people think its ok for the poor to suffer and the rich prosper and the dividing line between the 2 increases at an exponetial rate. When they worry about the richest 1% getting more of their money and corporations not have to pay taxes, but to make that happen the poor have to do without and the elderly die from no health care. But hey its ok, the rich really need that money more right.
We've had 40+ years of welfare in this country - trillions have been spent to get the poor out of poverty. Why is it worse than ever? Surely if welfare was to help the poor, would it not have fixed things by now? The problem has nothing with the rich getting richer, it more has to do with how the poor work and operate vs. how the rich operate. In my own life, I see so many people staying poor not because of other people, but because their education is horrible, and they have no drive to improve their life.
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