If we were somehow broke and everyone was paying what they owe to the common good, and still we couldn't support covering people with pre-existing conditions, then it might make sense. As it is, three news stories in same page of paper: lists of all the top corporations who manage to pay absolutely zero in taxes despite being so profitable and paying their people and investors so well, article on huge $$$ cut from NOAA (a govt. operation we ALL NEED BADLY and should be on the keep-lists of even the most grim libertarians), and feature on guy in 30s whose preexisting condition probably won't fell him until decades from now but prevents any affordable insurance without that rule (which is ridiculous since other people will die before him, sometimes due to decisions of their own, and they just don't know it yet so insurance is no problem).
The other thing is, it's tax season, and the more money we earn, the more obvious it becomes that this system is well and truly fucked. I used to struggle to get to the point of eking out some refund, some small refund. And now we have to pay more than we get refunded, but the fraction we are having to pay is SO LOW compared to the real effect of what we owed before. The things we can deduct are mind-boggling and imo unfair. There have to be lots of people in the middle getting pinched hard because they don't qualify for Medicaid. Sidebar: WTF, states that for some weird political reasons decided to refuse federal support for Medicaid expansion? They end up spending more one way or another, that's all, in their hope of sticking it to Obama and saving some money down the road. It was short-sighted.Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Sat Mar 11, 2017 9:32 am
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