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The Atlantic: The eye-popping cost of Medicare for All (link)

Cosmos

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So Dinger, you say civil unrest is a pipe dream? Read it and weep...

In recent history, only during the height of World War II has the federal government tried to increase taxes, as a share of the economy, as fast as would be required to offset the cost of a single-payer plan, federal figures show. There are “no analogous peacetime tax increases,” says Leonard Burman, a public-administration professor at Syracuse University and a former top tax official in both the Bill Clinton administration and at the CBO. Raising that much more tax revenue “is plausible in the sense that it is theoretically possible,” Burman told me. “But the revolution that would come along with it would get in the way.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/hea...f-medicare-for-all/ar-AAISFNC?ocid=spartanntp

These are tenuous times, folks. China has us fighting over table scraps and yet we attack one another. It would be different if they beat us on a level playing field but they have not. A suggestion if I might. Affix the blame where it belongs.

Thank you.
 
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