HRC actually did pretty well compared based on the popular vote, despite a 30 year character assassination campaign that had ppl honestly believing she killed her best friend.
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I think his interpretation of raising taxes to help others is what he calls “moralizing”
Except that’s not what happened. The ACA just shifted costs from one group of middle class people to another, while maintaining the cartels that make the most from our healthcare system. If that’s your litmus test for a moral stance, then your ethics needs work
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In what fashion could we possibly have gotten rid of private insurance? I don’t see how it would have been possible unless very different people were in very specific senate seats.
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I agree that getting rid of insurance would have been more ideal, but I don’t see how that was achievable given the political constraints.
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And you can make an honest case for raising taxes to fund public goods. But Dems keep up the “we’re going to tax the rich and give you stuff” line even though that’s not really how things work in any other modern welfare state
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Other nations certianly have a more progressive income tax than we do. And one resulting outcome is they have a far smaller rich poor gap than we do.
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