* Cost of employer-sponsored health plan: 25% of gross wages
* Cost of all taxes withheld: 10% of gross wages
Capitalism - wheeee!
Fucking bullshit. Give me single-payer universal healthcare so we can fucking join the civilized world, already.
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Hang on, I have to go find the box.
Da fuck?? I think the signers of the Constitution are preparing to rise from the grave to beat the shit out of Dershowitz and 60million fucking American idiots.
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Da fuck?? I think the signers of the Constitution are preparing to rise from the grave to beat the shit out of Dershowitz and 60million fucking American idiots.
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Dershowitz is trying to lay some groundwork here. It's much like negotiation. You begin by asking for something outrageous and then negotiate back from that. I've used the tactic, it works. You always end up much farther ahead. Negotiating upward is hard.
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I don't know if they're just stretching to fill some bizarre legal requirment, or if people really are that stupid. Either way, it's depressing in a really funny way.
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Sometimes they get clever and say "My 401(k) returned 25% last year!"
And i ask "Is that enough to buy a car?"
Usually it isnt.
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Most people don’t know how to think, let alone can be bothered to make the effort.Unfortunately all too true a statement. Although there seems to be no consensus on exactly how it is the USA seems to be so full of people who haven't bothered learning much of anything, I'm personally of the opinion that it's mostly a result of being complacent and lazy. With so many needs so easily met for a majority of the population, they simply can't be arsed to either learn or pay attention.
Of course, when shit gets rough, they're also the ones complaining mightily about how "the government needs to do something". That very same government about which they've bothered to learn little, done nothing much personally to assist, and along the way attempted to starve of funding because some greedy elites told them that was a "good idea."
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If you keep this in mind, everything about your day will make more sense and suck less.
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In contrast, in 1999, the GOP-controlled Senate spent 36 days holding a trial, with witnesses, for President Bill Clinton.
The GOP don't give a fuck about due process, American law, or the American people. The GOP only care about power, fuck everyone else.
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1) enlist in the Army,
or, if you literally physically cannot enlist, then:
2) call your Congress critter and demand tax rates be rolled back to Reagan-era rates to pay for the war.
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Shelenn Ayres 3 days ago
For the US, fixing Obamacare by adding the non-profit public option and drug price controls achieves multi-payer universal healthcare for ALL Americans. The economic and jobs impact of multi-payer universal healthcare is positive because the non-profit public option forces private insurance companies to compete which keeps prices under control. This was originally part of Obamacare (which in the 90's was Hillarycare) but the Republicans and Independents are the ones who blocked the public option.
Single payer allows prices to skyrocket forcing citizens to cover costs like they do in Canada is >50% tax burden. Even with those high contributions Canadians are having to go without adequate healthcare. The lack of competitive salaries for medical personnel in Canada forces them to come to the US to work for higher salaries and benefits.
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For the US, fixing Obamacare by adding the non-profit public option and drug price controls achieves multi-payer universal healthcare for ALL Americans. The economic and jobs impact of multi-payer universal healthcare is positive because the non-profit public option forces private insurance companies to compete which keeps prices under control. This was originally part of Obamacare (which in the 90's was Hillarycare) but the Republicans and Independents are the ones who blocked the public option.
Single payer allows prices to skyrocket forcing citizens to cover costs like they do in Canada is >50% tax burden. Even with those high contributions Canadians are having to go without adequate healthcare. The lack of competitive salaries for medical personnel in Canada forces them to come to the US to work for higher salaries and benefits.
Side note: Dental, hearing, vision, and mental healthcare are also not included and should be along with drug coverage as part of any universal plan.
Kenny Chaffin 3 days ago