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In reply to the discussion: If you want Single Payer, are you willing to impose a national sales tax to pay for it? [View all]Cal33
(7,018 posts)16. Why not try something like increasing the taxes on those making $300,000 and more/year first?
The upper 1% have been getting away with paying lower percentage taxes than the middle
classes for a long, long time. Why not make them pay back some of their ill-gotten gains?
We should try this first, and then see how it comes out.
WE DON'T OWE THEM! THEY OWE IT TO US!!!
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If you want Single Payer, are you willing to impose a national sales tax to pay for it? [View all]
Yavin4
Jan 2016
OP
I am, yes. But it might not even be necessary. Bernie Sanders said that the Single Payer
Cal33
Jan 2016
#135
HELL YES! It's less expensive than monthly insurance policies...that's for damn sure. n/t
in_cog_ni_to
Jan 2016
#2
When they have to pay half again for EVERYTHING, the bloom will come off that rose real quick. nt
MADem
Jan 2016
#65
Sorry, but 2.2 percent of income in taxes is far less than half the 14.7 percent
Fawke Em
Jan 2016
#97
Oh heck then. Let's just cancel the election and let the GOP do whatever they wasnt.
Armstead
Jan 2016
#38
Sorry, I've been wrong to fall for the pretense that this is really about Medicare for All when
merrily
Jan 2016
#154
I don't believe that is true because he will be taxing the middle class a modest amount
Samantha
Jan 2016
#169
It would definitely be a lot, as Vermont found out when they ended their bold experiment to enact
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#70
Yes! Health care costs are half in other developed countries and outcomes are better!
Human101948
Jan 2016
#31
I feel the same as you, but am curious to know why organic and non-gmo food would be exempt
cleanhippie
Jan 2016
#149
Well, at least they do follow science, not the psuedo-science peddled by anti-GMO groups.
cleanhippie
Jan 2016
#165
I would add that we should also tax alcoholic beverages, altho we do that here in CT
CTyankee
Jan 2016
#170
Why not try something like increasing the taxes on those making $300,000 and more/year first?
Cal33
Jan 2016
#16
Do you have any idea how much you'd have to tax them to keep from taxing lower income
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#34
You need an entirely new source of revenue to replace the existing health insurance system
Yavin4
Jan 2016
#48
Didn't Sanders say that he was going to go for the Single Payer system with universal coverage? He
Cal33
Jan 2016
#133
That's why I wrote to give it a try first to see how it will come out. My question to you is, Do
Cal33
Jan 2016
#75
Even the legitimate stuff in that list doesn't approach the $3 trillion we spend on health annually.
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#93
Here's a link stating that Corporate Welfare costs the average American family $6,000 per year. Do
Cal33
Jan 2016
#130
There is no point in discussing this further. You think your way, and I'll think mine.
Cal33
Jan 2016
#134
I think hospitals, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and doctors over-charge.
Cal33
Jan 2016
#88
^^ This. I have difficulty believing we truly need to spend *that* much for defense.
winter is coming
Jan 2016
#117
So cut it by 50%. We have the biggest military budget in the history of everyone forever anywhere.
Myrina
Jan 2016
#37
Right now my wife and I are paying approximately $1100 per month for Medicare and a supplement
tularetom
Jan 2016
#36
Actually, as it is imposed in Canada and Australia, it is a tax on goods AND services
tularetom
Jan 2016
#143
Which is why the OP is claiming sales taxes are the only way to fund single payer.
jeff47
Jan 2016
#81
Yes, and the OP has done nothing to explain how this just has to be done with sales taxes.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2016
#98
I AM ALREADY PAYING MORE IN PREMIUMS AND DEDUCTIBLES THAN THE TAX RATE. HELL YEAH !!!
Hiraeth
Jan 2016
#46
I reject the central thesis--that sales taxes must be raised in order to accomplish this.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2016
#94
I am really tired of Republicans and DINOs telling me why we can't have healthcare LIKE EVERY OTHER
Doctor_J
Jan 2016
#100
It makes too much sense, most US politicos don't have the sense Dog gave a carrot.
Mnemosyne
Jan 2016
#166
Interesting: many responders read this to say we would "have to" do a VAT, which you didn't say
Recursion
Jan 2016
#108
The responders on this thread remind me of Republicans who want tax cuts without saying what...
Yavin4
Jan 2016
#115
The anti-tax guy tells me I remind him of a Republican? I think not.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2016
#120
No, I believe my old English major is helping me to barely get by, somehow.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2016
#125
The amount of sales tax I will pay will be far less than the premiums and deductibles
Maedhros
Jan 2016
#114
No. It should be a progressive income tax, or possibly some kind of financial transaction tax.
drm604
Jan 2016
#129
We have that in Canada. Poor people get money back from the tax service 4 times a year. Think of all
applegrove
Jan 2016
#141
It would be a whole lot less than what I am currently paying in deductibles. n/t
FourScore
Jan 2016
#164