ThaLoraxBahaha, celibate midget! Like Dr Evil's little twin? Because that's kind of how I imagined you with your pent-up anger, name calling, and frustration-based rants based off nothing but your opaque, conservatively tinted window to the world. Take your horse blinders off and see you're in the minority here. I'm not really sure what you were warning me about though. Am I supposed to feel threatened by a few angry words from some stranger on the internet because he follows my posts in the Ladies Men cult? If anything, that's kind of creepy on your part.
Anyways, why should anybody respect you more when all you've done on this website over the years is belittle others from behind a keyboard? That's about the least respectable thing you can possibly do. You'll get respect when you deserve it, and calling my cancer "story" a sob story does not beget respect. Quite the opposite. I used it as a relevant example of how the affordable care act helped create a positive outcome in someone's (in this case, my own) life, not as a sob story. I now have health care coverage when I was unable to receive it before. I don't' plan on using it, but I have it in case I get injured or get sick. Everyone deserves that right.
Also, of course I pay taxes. I run my own business and work 3 different jobs, including my own business, plus any other temp work I can pick up throughout the year. What do you do that makes you feel so superior to everyone? Your username aside, the only thing I'm seeing you " the champion" of is a bunch of laughs by everyone else at your own expense.
I would absolutely pay more in taxes if it meant everybody had the right to health care. It's called altruism. You should look up the definition if it seems like a foreign word to you. The USA is the only major country in the world that doesn't offer the common decency of health care to it's citizens. No, I don't want it to get to the point of Frances tax rates, but certain things like health care and education are worthy of increasing taxes to invest in public services by which, time after time, have proven to generate economic prosperity.
The prices in the health care industry/pharmeceutical industry are astronomically and artificially high in the US when compared to other countries as well. The "tax burden" wouldn't be nearly as bad if the big pharma owners were reigned like Volcker did with the banks and regulated them better. Health care services have become a cash hungry industry that cares about profit over the health of their clients just as the banks have done with the tax payer's money. That is an unjust way to run a service that is supposed to help people stay healthy.
Health care is not property. It's a service, hence the word "care". That is an invalid argument. Sure, some people own businesses that provide the service, but if that is a private service then they are the exception to what we are talking about here. Everyone has the right to become a doctor and start a private service if they want to. However, healthcare should remain a public service provided to and for the people to keep our country healthy and productive. A healthy country is a productive country. If you want to pay more for a private doctor, then so be it. That's not a relevant discussion for this topic though.
Bernie Sanders is trying to provide a platform to the masses who are currently voiceless in order to create positive social and economic change, while aiming to bringing down corrupt businessmen in the process. If you don't agree with that, you've got some screws loose.
Your tasteless and thoughtless rants are quite entertaining actually, so please do respond with more middle school girl style name-calling and finger pointing hissy fits. I'll be waiting in my mom's house for the response.
Ah once again, where to begin? I find your rose-tinted nonsense just as entertaining.
And how typical of a loser leftist, I remember being very courteous to you before you insulted me, do not cry now that I have taken the gloves off.
You spew bullshit about altruism, yet your positions are all based on stories of how government hand-outs benefit you. If you're feeling altruistic, go donate your money to charity. Your false altruism is based on forcibly stealing the property of others. I'm also fairly certain that you do not pay income taxes, FICA doesn't count. And the success of your "business" is most likely the rough equivalent of your success with girls (none). Perhaps if you didn't mention that no girl ever gives you the time of day in every other post, I wouldn't remember it quite so well. I can understand how multiple consecutive years of never getting any would make you quite an angry little man.
Again, I didn't want to insult you in this fashion, but you forced my hand. Rarely do I insult those who have not first insulted me.
Also, you clearly have a very poor understanding of the concept of property. A service is absolutely the property of whoever provides that service (which is why services cost money). These services require labor and capital. In this case you are saying that you have a right to a doctor's time, labor, and resources (which is their property) simply because you think it's right. The doctor's right to choose what to do with his or her property (his or her labor) is miles above your supposed right to be seen by said doctor.
But, you may say, doctors are paid through the taxpayers! Well that money has to be taken from people by force through taxes, does it not? This requires additional requisition by government of people's property, in order to distribute that property to others. By declaring that you have a right to health care, you are declaring that you, selfish little dwarf that you are, have the right to steal from others to serve your own ends (as well as those like you).
What you see as "common decency", I correctly see as theft and a violation of an individual's sacred right to property. I, for one, do not want to see the government fully take over the 17.4% of the economy that is health care.
Community clinics for Medicaid patients I could support, but no one on Medicaid deserves multi-million dollar medical care at taxpayer expense. If you think so, then you are the one with "screws loose" and living in fantasy land.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
