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In reply to the discussion: So Ocasio-Cortez has not even taken office, and she's already planning [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)dollar cost in government spending is a Koch brother's funded study's number. The thing about that number is that Americans pay 34 trillion dollars for healthcare now.
And bullshit with the lamest ass argument that if something hasn't been done its because it can't be done. Quit using examples of states not doing this as examples that they simply did the math and couldn't pull it off. Granted, there can be political costs that they may have weighed, but that's an entirely different beast than what is possible. . We could have said that about Social Security. "Hasn't been done ...thus can't be..."
As to the government using hyppothetical savings to pay for things...what? We would tax higher. Taht's a given. People would pay more in taxes, they'd just pay less or nothing in private insurance. Corporations would pay more in taxes. Quit with the "magic" bullshit. This is doable and there's nothing magic about how taxes work...nor hypothetical.