Justagamer said:
the2real4mafol said:
Mr Puggsly said:
the2real4mafol said:
Should of just funded the healthcare with taxes like the UK. You lot are only paying for a bloated army right now, a couple wars and some fascist mass spying organisations. Good priority of American government with so many in poverty! |
American Poverty = Living in better conditions than most of the world with an opportunity to get out of poverty
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Tell that to the poor in places like Detroit, Chicago or LA or any big city. If you're born poor you are likely to stay poor unless very lucky. Being poor is a bit of a disadvantage to doing well in the current system. And if American federal government ensured just two things, they would make things alot better for people. $15 minimum wage and a tax funded health service. Hell the money saved from eliminating the free market from core parts of healthcare would save alot of money for all.
Why else does the US spend 17% of GDP on health while European countries with a NHS style system or a mixed public/ private healthcare system spend around 8 to 10% of GDP. It certaintly adds up and its nice to known I can get treatment if I needed it without worrying about the cost.
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I find it funny when people think raising the minimum wage is the answer... What do you think happens when minimum wage goes up? The price of everything goes up too... So they'll make a little more, and spend a little more, but wind up in the same place: broke. I have a friend who manages a local Walgreens store... As soon as it was known that minimum wage was going up, prices went up on many products... One week later, he showed me a list of items, hundreds of them, that were already raised, or will soon be going up... Just by the news of minimum wage going up.... Getting a better job, not raising minimum wage, is the answer to making more money....
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Funny how you think only minimum wage increases can cause inflation. There are many causes of inflation (like hiking up prices of food or fuel for example), increasing minimum wage can do this but it doesn't have to. Rather than printing more money, redistribute what there already is! The hoarding of wealth has to stop. These wealthy individuals do little with extra wealth anyway, it's just greed and is very selfish with all the suffering in the world.
Also, 'getting a better job' is easy enough to say but there are simply not enough jobs of any kind to go round. There are more workers than jobs now and because of the economic situation, there is little initiative to create any. There is no simple solution to this. Also, the current system couldn't work with everyone being wealthy, someone has to be poor under capitalism
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