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2016 Postmortem

morningfog

(18,115 posts) Mon Jan 25, 2016, 11:34 PM Jan 2016

Given the choice between paying taxes or an insurance company, I will

proudly choose taxes.

And not just that. I will proudly and happily pay my share of taxes to ensure equity of access to healthcare, education, employment, safe utilities and infrastructure.

Rising tides lift all boats and tax cuts sink us all. We can't be a healthy progressive and secure country on the cheap. Of you take that route we get collapsing bridges and poisoned water.

Healthcare is a human right. We the People have to fund and protect that right.

Education is a human right. A living wage is a human right. Safe utilities are a human right. None of it comes free.

I proudly stand with Bernie Sanders for respecting us enough to be honest and direct. And you all know he is right.